Cloud Computing: A Hands-On Approach (Paperback)

Recent industry surveys expect the cloud computing services market to be in excess of $20 billion and cloud computing jobs to be in excess of 10 million worldwide in 2014 alone. In addition, since a majority of existing information technology (IT) jobs is focused on maintaining legacy in-house systems, the demand for these kinds of jobs is likely to drop rapidly if cloud computing continues to take hold of the industry.

However, there are very few educational options available in the area of cloud computing beyond vendor-specific training by cloud providers themselves. Cloud computing courses have not found their way (yet) into mainstream college curricula.

This book is written as a textbook on cloud computing for educational programs at colleges. It can also be used by cloud service providers who may be interested in offering a broader perspective of cloud computing to accompany their own customer and employee training programs. The typical reader is expected to have completed a couple of courses in programming using traditional high-level languages at the college-level, and is either a senior or a beginning graduate student in one of the science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) fields. We have tried to write a comprehensive book that transfers knowledge through an immersive "hands-on approach", where the reader is provided the necessary guidance and knowledge to develop working code for real-world cloud applications.

Additional support is available at the book's website: www.cloudcomputingbook.info

Organization
The book is organized into three main parts. Part I covers technologies that form the foundations of cloud computing. These include topics such as virtualization, load balancing, scalability & elasticity, deployment, and replication. Part II introduces the reader to the design & programming aspects of cloud computing. Case studies on design and implementation of several cloud applications in the areas such as image processing, live streaming and social networks analytics are provided. Part III introduces the reader to specialized aspects of cloud computing including cloud application benchmarking, cloud security, multimedia applications and big data analytics. Case studies in areas such as IT, healthcare, transportation, networking and education are provided.

關於本書
最近的行業調查預計，雲計算服務市場價值將超過200億美元，而僅在2014年全球雲計算工作機會就將超過1000萬個。此外，由於大多數現有的資訊技術（IT）工作都集中在維護內部系統，如果雲計算繼續在該行業佔據主導地位，這些工作的需求可能會迅速下降。

然而，在雲計算領域，除了由雲服務提供商提供的特定供應商培訓之外，幾乎沒有其他教育選擇。雲計算課程尚未（至今）納入主流大學課程。

本書是為大學教育計劃而撰寫的雲計算教科書。它也可以被雲服務提供商使用，以提供更廣泛的雲計算觀點，以配合他們自己的客戶和員工培訓計劃。預期典型讀者已在大學層面完成了幾門使用傳統高級語言進行編程的課程，並且是科學、技術、工程或數學（STEM）領域的高年級或初級研究生。我們試圖撰寫一本全面的書籍，通過沉浸式的“實踐方法”傳遞知識，讓讀者獲得必要的指導和知識，以開發真實世界的雲應用程式的工作代碼。

書籍的網站提供額外支援：www.cloudcomputingbook.info

組織
本書分為三個主要部分。第一部分介紹了構成雲計算基礎的技術。這些技術包括虛擬化、負載平衡、可擴展性和彈性、部署和複製等主題。第二部分介紹了雲計算的設計和編程方面。提供了在圖像處理、實時流媒體和社交網絡分析等領域設計和實施多個雲應用程式的案例研究。第三部分介紹了雲計算的專業方面，包括雲應用程式基準測試、雲安全、多媒體應用程式和大數據分析。提供了在IT、醫療保健、交通運輸、網絡和教育等領域的案例研究。