5 Questions
What are the economic reasons that make cloud computing attractive to users?
Low infrastructure investment and low cost
How can application developers benefit from cloud computing?
They can design applications without being concerned with the system where the application will run
How can the execution time of compute-intensive and data-intensive applications be potentially reduced in cloud computing?
Through parallelization by partitioning the workload and spawning multiple instances of the application
What is an advantage of using architectural styles for cloud applications?
Efficiently addressing specific functional and non-functional requirements
What is an example of a cloud computing application mentioned in the text?
The GrepTheWeb application
Study Notes
Economic Reasons for Cloud Attractiveness
- Scalability and flexibility reduce capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operational expenditures (OPEX)
- Pay-as-you-go pricing model lowers costs and enables cost-effective scaling
- Reduced maintenance and upgrade costs due to cloud provider management
Benefits for Application Developers
- Rapid deployment and prototyping enable faster time-to-market
- Access to a vast array of tools, services, and technologies
- Greater flexibility in choosing programming languages, frameworks, and architectures
- Auto-scaling and load balancing enable efficient resource utilization
Reducing Execution Time
- Distributing compute-intensive tasks across multiple virtual machines (VMs) reduces execution time
- Data-intensive applications benefit from data parallelism and distributed data processing
- High-performance computing (HPC) enables faster execution of complex tasks
Advantages of Architectural Styles
- Modularity and loose coupling enable flexibility and scalability
- Separation of concerns promotes maintainability and reusability
- Easier integration with third-party services and APIs
Cloud Computing Application Example
- Online collaborative document editing tools, such as Google Docs
Test your knowledge of challenges, architectural styles, workflows, coordination models, and case studies related to cloud computing applications and paradigms.
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