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| Preface | |
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| The Cloud for Developers | |
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| The Developer's Plight | |
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| What the Cloud Has Done for Innovation | |
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| The Cloud: A Brief History for Programmers | |
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| Introducing APIs | |
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| Along Comes DevOps | |
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| The Arrival of Application Lifecycle Management | |
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| The Next-Generation Cloud with Platform-as-a-Service | |
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| The Core of the Cloud | |
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| Managed Platforms versus Productized Platforms | |
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| The Cloud's Promise (or Hype) | |
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| The Cloud in Five Years | |
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| The Promise Fulfilled | |
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| What Is PaaS? | |
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| Conjuring a Website | |
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| Early Options for Developers | |
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| Shared Web Hosting | |
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| Dedicated Hosting | |
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| PaaS: The Best of Both Worlds | |
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| The Developer's Holy Grail | |
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| Sharing the Load | |
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| Language Considerations | |
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| PaaS Pricing | |
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| Is PaaS Really New or Just IaaS++? | |
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| PaaS: A Vital Tool for Modern Apps | |
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| Moving Toward Higher-Level Languages | |
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| Managing the Backend | |
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| Conjuring Confidence | |
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| Types of PaaS | |
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| Non-Portable: Following a Template | |
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| Force.com | |
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| Google App Engine | |
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| Windows Azure | |
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| Non-Portable Conclusion | |
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| Portable: No Heavy Lifting Required | |
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| Heroku | |
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| Cloud Foundry | |
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| AppFog | |
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| dotCloud | |
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| CloudBees | |
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| Summary: Where Do You Want to Live? | |
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| Dealing with Legacy and Greenfield Apps | |
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| Tapping Into Services | |
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| Moving Toward Open Standards | |
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| The Allure of Open Source | |
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| Evaluating Your Legacy | |
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| Moving Legacy Apps to PaaS | |
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| Initial Considerations | |
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| Sidestepping Potential Problems | |
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| Common Questions to Ask Yourself | |
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| Even More Legacy Code Issues | |
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| Overview | |
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| Asset Hosting | |
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| All About Blob | |
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| PHP with Amazon S3 | |
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| Node.js with Azure Blob Service | |
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| Generalized Asset Hosting Functions in Ruby for Rackspace Cloud Files | |
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| Uploading with Plug-ins | |
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| Session Management | |
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| PHP | |
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| Node.js | |
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| Ruby | |
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| Java | |
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| Caching | |
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| Filling In the Pieces | |
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| Caching with memcached in PHP | |
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| Caching with MongoDB in Node.js | |
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| Generalized Caching Functions in Ruby for Redis | |
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| Asynchronous Processing | |
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| Serving Up Stored Data | |
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| How to Create Asynchronous Processes | |
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| More Advanced Scheduling of Background Tasks | |
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| SQL | |
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| The Dilemma of Stored Procedures | |
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| NoSQL | |
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| Miscellaneous Gotchas | |
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| The Optimization Trap | |
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| Starting from Scratch | |
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| A Final Note on Legacy Apps | |
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| Writing New Apps for PaaS | |
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| Breaking Down the Monolith | |
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| Independent Thinking | |
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| Leveraging APIs for Mobile Development | |
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| The Emergence of JSON and REST | |
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| A Look at JSON | |
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| A Look at REST | |
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| A Look at Metaservices | |
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| Consuming RESTful Metaservices | |
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| Application Clients | |
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| Mobile Clients | |
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| Thin Web Clients | |
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| Thick Web Clients | |
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| The Unique Contribution of PaaS | |
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| Four Important Benefits | |
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| A Solution for Enterprises and Governments | |
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| The Effect of Moore's Law | |
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| Mobile Apps on PaaS | |
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| A Brief History of Mobile App Development | |
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| The Apps of the Future | |
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| Data Structures | |
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| JSON and XML | |
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| Consuming Metaservices in Mobile Clients | |
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| iOS | |
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| Android | |
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| How PaaS Makes Mobile Backend Development Easier | |
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| It's Fast to Build Mobile Backend Metaservices | |
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| It's Easy to Scale Metaservices with PaaS | |
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| It's Easy to Pick the Right Underlying Core Services | |
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| Portable Interfaces Can Be Used on Many Devices | |
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| Serving a Large Audience | |
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| A Look at Core Services | |
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| Non-PaaS Core Services | |
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| Evaluating PaaS for Services | |
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| Saving Time with Managed Databases and PaaS | |
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| SQL | |
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| NoSQL | |
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| Caches and PaaS: Look for Redundancy | |
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| Solving the Challenges of Email | |
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| The Importance of Monitoring | |
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| Considering Your Options | |
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| Taking the Long View | |
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| Load Testing | |
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| Planning an Upgrade Path | |
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| Storage Options | |
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| Why Not PaaS? | |
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| Public Cloud versus Private Cloud | |
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| What Is Private Cloud? | |
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| How to Choose: Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses | |
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| Open and Closed | |
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| How to Choose: Enterprise Businesses | |
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| The Limitations of PaaS | |
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| Fitting Your App into the Mold | |
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| More Considerations | |
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| Avoiding Limitations | |
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| Encountering Resistance | |
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| Putting the Limitations in Perspective | |
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| The Future of PaaS | |
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| The Influence of OpenStack | |
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| Keeping Your Development Options Open | |
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| Outages: Your Biggest Problem | |
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| Regaining Control Through Open Source | |
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| Micro Magic | |
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| Limitations of Open Source PaaS Libraries | |
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| The Virtues of Versatility | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Resources | |
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| PaaS Providers | |
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| IaaS Providers | |
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| Managed Services | |
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| Data storage: MySQL | |
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| Data storage: PostgreSQL | |
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| Data storage: CouchDB | |
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| Data storage: MongoDB | |
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| Data storage: NoSQL | |
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| Data storage: Redis | |
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| Data storage: Caching | |
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| Mobile | |
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| Search | |
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| Logging | |
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| Email | |
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| Background Tasks | |
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| Analytics | |
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| Error Monitoring | |
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| Utilities | |
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| Payments | |
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| Migrating Legacy Apps to PaaS | |
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| WordPress Plug-ins | |
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| Drupal Modules | |
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| Joomla! Plug-ins | |
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| Greenfield PaaS App Development | |
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| Ruby | |
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| Python | |
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| Node.js | |
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| PHP | |
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| Java | |
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| .NET | |
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| Perl | |
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| Index | |