If you're developing or considering cloud application architectures for your company's projects, this practical guide is an ideal place to learn and understand best practices for developing in the cloud. Architects and lead developers will learn how cloud applications should be designed, how they fit into a larger architectural picture, and how to make them operate efficiently. Authors Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, and Joe Yoder take you through the process step by step.

You'll learn:

• Proven architectural practices for developing applications for the cloud
• Why some architectural choices are better suited than others for applications intended to run on the cloud
• How different technical choices work together to make applications better suited for the cloud
• Design and Implementation techniques that work well for developing cloud applications
• Ways to select the most appropriate cloud adoption patterns for your organization
• How all potential choices in application design relate to each other through the connections of the patterns
• How to chart your own course in adopting the right strategies for developing application architectures for the cloud

Kyle Brown is an IBM Fellow, vice president and CTO for the IBM CIO and author of The Cloud Adoption Playbook.

Bobby Woolf is an Open Group Certified Distinguished Technical Specialist who works with IBM clients and partners and is coauthor of Enterprise Integration Patterns.

Joe Yoder is a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a founder and principal of The Refactory. He's coauthor of A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game.