Today “the Cloud” is everywhere, it permeates our lives, and it is impossible to imagine ourselves without it. Without Cloud technology, we wouldn’t have globally available applications like Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, Google, IBM Cloud, Netflix, Apple iTunes, Amazon, and Microsoft Azure, to name but a few Cloud-based services.
Cloud services do not depend on dedicated hardware servers, but on ephemeral APIs1 that can be accessible by everyone, from anywhere, on any type of device, from desktops to smartphones. All ...