Nick Davis's Blog
Cloud computing promises to change much of how we as developers, designers,
and architects currently design and build web applications. For one,
concurrency is big issue that need to be addressed if the apps of the next
decade are going to scale on this cloud infrastructure.
One of the most popular themes in the last couple years on the web is the
much-heralded “cloud computing”. Of course, the cloud metaphor is taken
from the representation of the Internet in architecture diagrams as a big
fluffy cloud to which other, more discrete networks and systems are
interconnected. From the Wikipedia page, Cloud computing, defined, is:
a style of computing in which IT-related capabilities are provided “as a
service”, allowing users to access technology-enabled services from the
Internet (”in the cloud”) without knowledge of, expertise with, or
control over t... (more)