The Cloud Computing Book: The Future of Computing Explained

This latest textbook from bestselling author, Douglas E. Comer, is a class-tested book providing a comprehensive introduction to cloud computing. Focusing on concepts and principles, rather than commercial offerings by cloud providers and vendors, The Cloud Computing Book: The Future of Computing Explained gives readers a complete picture of the advantages and growth of cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, automation and orchestration, and cloud-native software design.

The book explains real and virtual data center facilities, including computation (e.g., servers, hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and containers), networks (e.g., leaf-spine architecture, VLANs, and VxLAN), and storage mechanisms (e.g., SAN, NAS, and object storage). Chapters on automation and orchestration cover the conceptual organization of systems that automate software deployment and scaling. Chapters on cloud-native software cover parallelism, microservices, MapReduce, controller-based designs, and serverless computing. Although it focuses on concepts and principles, the book uses popular technologies in examples, including Docker containers and Kubernetes. Final chapters explain security in a cloud environment and the use of models to help control the complexity involved in designing software for the cloud.

The text is suitable for a one-semester course for software engineers who want to understand cloud, and for IT managers moving an organization's computing to the cloud.

Dr. Douglas Comer is a Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, an industry consultant, and internationally-acclaimed author. He served as the inaugural VP of Research at Cisco Systems, and maintains ties with industry. His books are used in industry and academia around the world. Comer is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, and the recipient of numerous teaching awards. His ability to make complex topics understandable gives his books broad appeal for a wide variety of audiences.

道格拉斯·科默博士是普渡大學的傑出教授、業界顧問和國際知名作家。他曾擔任思科系統的首任研究副總裁，並與業界保持聯繫。他的書籍在全球的業界和學術界廣泛使用。科默博士是ACM（美國計算機學會）的會士，也是互聯網名人堂的成員，並獲得了眾多教學獎項。他能夠將複雜的主題講解清晰易懂，使他的書籍對各種不同的讀者具有廣泛的吸引力。