Coding for the “Cloud”

Overview: These day’s everyone is talking about the scalability of the cloud, and its abundance of uses, however few of them are talking about how to properly utilize the technology. Cloud Infrastructures are designed to be able to scale in a linear fashion rather than a “vertical” like that of dedicated hardware. When scaling with dedicated hardware the first step is to build up what you have. Typically people start off with a smaller server which is cheaper and add ram / disk as needed. Once the hardware can no longer be upgraded, they then start to expand linear. The cloud also...