Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS

Marcus Young

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781782177340
• Thema: Computer Science
• Thema: Databases

Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS

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Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS

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About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction

Introduction to AWS

Cloud computing service models

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service

Software as a Service

Benefits of moving to the Cloud

Common problems encountered at AWS

Underlying hardware failures

Over-provisioning

Under-provisioning

Replication

Redundancy

Improving the end user experience

Monitoring and log-gathering

Summary

2. Basic Patterns

Introducing Vagrant

Snapshot pattern

Stamp pattern

Scale up pattern

Scale out pattern

On-demand disk pattern

Volume resize

Change volume from magnetic to SSD

Increase I/O through software RAID

Summary

3. Patterns for High Availability

Multi-server pattern

Multi-data center pattern

Floating IP pattern

Deep health check pattern

Summary

4. Patterns for Processing Static Data

High availability storage

Direct storage hosting

Private data delivery

Content delivery networks

Rename distribution pattern

Summary

5. Patterns for Processing Dynamic Data

Clone server pattern

NFS sharing pattern

State sharing pattern

URL rewriting pattern

Cache proxy pattern

Summary

6. Patterns for Uploading Data

Write proxy pattern

Storage index pattern

Direct object upload pattern

Summary

7. Patterns for Databases

Database replication pattern

Read replica pattern

In-memory cache pattern

Sharding write pattern

Summary

8. Patterns for Data Processing

Queuing chain pattern

Priority queue pattern

Job observer pattern

Summary

9. Patterns for Operation and Maintenance

Bootstrap pattern

Cloud dependency injection pattern

Stack deployment pattern

Monitoring integration pattern

Web storage archive pattern

Weighted transition pattern

Hybrid backup pattern

Summary

10. Patterns for Networking

OnDemand NAT pattern

Management network pattern

Functional firewall pattern

Operational firewall pattern

Web application firewall pattern

Multiple load balancer pattern

Summary

11. Throw-away Environments

Infrastructure as code

CloudFormation

Packer

Fugue

Temporary development environments

Continuous integration

Summary

Index

Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS

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Marcus Young

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About the Author

Marcus Young recently graduated with a degree in computer science and mathematics before getting involved in system administration and DevOps. He currently works in software automation using open source tools and technologies. His hobbies include playing ice hockey and brewing homebrew beer. He also enjoys hardware projects based on microcontrollers and single board computers.

I'd like to thank my beautiful wife for putting up with the many projects and work items that make their way into my free time. Also to my son who continues to inspire me to keep pushing myself.

About the Reviewers

João Ferreira Loff has an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering with a major in software engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (www.tecnico.ulisboa.pt), University of Lisboa, Portugal. His interest in Cloud computing emerged from his master's thesis, where he researched predictive elasticity for Cloud applications.

He currently collaborates with the Distributed Systems Group at INESC-ID Lisboa (www.inesc-id.pt), a nonprofit computer science and electronics research institute, where he researches the latest developments in Cloud computing provisioning, elasticity, and scalability.

As a part of his research he developed Vadara, a generic Cloud computing elasticity framework that allows for the development of elasticity strategies that are decoupled from Cloud providers (https://github.com/jfloff/vadara). The foundation of this framework has been the subject of a published work at a top tier Cloud computing conference.

You can read more about him at https://jfloff.github.io.

Robert M. Marks is an experienced software developer and has spent over 12 years of his career working for a variety of software companies, ranging from large companies, such as IBM, to small start-ups. He is passionate about crafting well-tested software using best practices such as TDD, layered design, dependency injection, and so on. He has contributed to various open source projects and was the creator of JOGRE (Java Online Gaming Real-time Engine).

He is currently the head of engineering at Adoreboard, a unique platform that measures how the world feels about your brand so that ma...