Young - Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS

Marcus Young recently graduated with a degree in computer science and mathematics before getting involved in system administration and DevOps. He currently works in software automation using open source tools and technologies. His hobbies include playing ice hockey and brewing homebrew beer. He also enjoys hardware projects based on microcontrollers and single board computers.

I'd like to thank my beautiful wife for putting up with the many projects and work items that make their way into my free time. Also to my son who continues to inspire me to keep pushing myself.

Joo Ferreira Loff has an MSc in Computer Science and Engineering with a major in software engineering from Instituto Superior Tcnico (www.tecnico.ulisboa.pt), University of Lisboa, Portugal. His interest in Cloud computing emerged from his master's thesis, where he researched predictive elasticity for Cloud applications.

He currently collaborates with the Distributed Systems Group at INESC-ID Lisboa (www.inesc-id.pt), a nonprofit computer science and electronics research institute, where he researches the latest developments in Cloud computing provisioning, elasticity, and scalability.

As a part of his research he developed Vadara, a generic Cloud computing elasticity framework that allows for the development of elasticity strategies that are decoupled from Cloud providers (https://github.com/jfloff/vadara). The foundation of this framework has been the subject of a published work at a top tier Cloud computing conference.

You can read more about him at https://jfloff.github.io.

Robert M. Marks is an experienced software developer and has spent over 12 years of his career working for a variety of software companies, ranging from large companies, such as IBM, to small start-ups. He is passionate about crafting well-tested software using best practices such as TDD, layered design, dependency injection, and so on. He has contributed to various open source projects and was the creator of JOGRE (Java Online Gaming Real-time Engine).

He is currently the head of engineering at Adoreboard, a unique platform that measures how the world feels about your brand so that marketers can make better business decisions. In his work at Adoreboard, he is a key pioneer for the development of real-time scalable architectures using a combination of technologies, including Enterprise Java, Spring Framework, Cloud computing, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Redis.

Somanath Nanda has spent the past 3 and a half years in the IT industry developing innovative methods to build new products which can fill the gap between human requirements and technology. He is interested in learning new data usage techniques, high-performance computing, and storage-related technologies. He has worked in various Cloud and big data technologies and data analysis mechanisms. His areas of interest include storage mechanisms of data and new algorithms and computational strategies, followed by high-performance, various machine learning, and data science techniques. Previously, he was involved in reviewing AWS Development Essentials, 1st Ed, 2014.

I would like to thank my parents and friends for their support in making this review successful.

Philip O'Toole has developed software and led software development teams for more than 15 years for a variety of applications including embedded software, networking appliances, web services, and SaaS infrastructure. His most recent work with AWS includes having led the infrastructure design and development of Loggly's log analytics SaaS platform, which is entirely hosted in AWS. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and can be found online at http://www.philipotoole.com.

Fred Stluka is an avid computer programmer and has been a mentor to hundreds of people over his 30 plus years of professional experience. He is proud to be a "Fred" in the very best sense of the word. For more information, see http://bristle.com/~fred/MaximizingTheFredFactor.htm.

He wrote his first book in 1991, http://archive.adaic.com/docs/style-guide/83style/style-t.txt.

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