Ten^H^H^H Many Cloud App Design Patterns
Today I presented at the Enterprise Cloud Summit at the Interop conference. The talk was officially entitled Ten Cloud Design Patterns, but because my focus is on the application, I re-titled it. And I mention more than ten patterns, hence the final title Many Cloud App Design Patterns. I explore a number of important issues for cloud applications. Application state and behavior must both be scaled. Availability is dependent on MTTR and MTTF - but one of them is much more important than the other in the cloud. Single Points of Failure are the nemesis of availability, and I walk through some typical patterns for reducing SPOFs in the cloud. ...