Matthew Nohr - Implementing AppFog

Matthew Nohr is a software developer with over ten years of experience in creating large scale applications. He has worked on a range of projects from enterprise Java desktop applications to commercial Java server-based products to cloud-based Groovy/Grails services. Matthew is a certified Scrum Master and has a Masters degree in Software Engineering.

I'd like to thank my wife Katie for supporting me though yet another one of my diversions.

Isaac Rabinovitch is a freelance technical writer in Portland, Oregon. He's worked with computers since the days they filled whole rooms and had hundreds of blinking lights. He's written documentation for programmers, system administrators, data center personnel, and ordinary people. His former employees include Sun, SGI, Borland, and Zilog. He's the co-author of the Java Tutorial, 4th edition . Read more about him at picknit.com.

I want to thank many folks at Portland hackathons, meetups, and other venues for their help and support. Their spirit is something that makes PDX is a great place to work on technology.

Ngo The Hung is a passionate software developer who loves open source technologies and frameworks. He is not afraid to get his hands dirty and his feet wet, he is open to most technologies as long as they are useful and fun. He also has experience in mobile development and web technologies, he has worked with multiple mobile platforms (Android/iPhone/Windows 8), open source portals, frameworks, and content management systems. In his free time, he reads manga and watches movies.

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Abhilash Nanda has completed a Masters in CSE from IIT Hyderabad. He has two years experience in commercial development and a total of five years in programming. Currently he works as a software developer at TopTalent.in. He loves to learn new technologies and programming patterns that reduce human effort.

An enthusiastic programmer, writer, and thinker. When strolling alone, he thinks about the world or else about some architecture to be implemented. He loves to play cricket and has a heartfelt connection to novels and poetry.

I would like to thank every single person who has come into and out of my life, for the way they have shaped me into who I am.

Tom O'Connor is an experienced systems architect and DevOps engineer, living in the West Midlands in the United Kingdom. Over the last eight years, he has worked in a wide variety of companies, from e-commerce, to video effects, and now owns his own company providing systems consultancy for wireless network design and installations.

Tom writes a technical blog on his website, providing both tutorial articles, and updates on what he's been working on. He has wide reaching skills and experience gathered over the last ten years, having worked on Windows, Linux, and Unix systems for most of that time, coupled with recent experience in designing and building high-performance computer systems.

He is also an active member of the UK DevOps community, as well as a Community Moderator on ServerFault.com, where he demonstrates his expertise and skills to a wide audience.

Tom also worked on reviewing Learning AWS OpsWorks , which was published in September 2013.

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Preface

AppFog is a cloud-based solution that allows users to quickly build and deploy applications without having to handle server configuration and setup. This book is intended to help you to quickly get started using AppFog and learn to create and deploy applications to the AppFog cloud.

What this book covers

, Getting Started With AppFog , creates an account with AppFog and gets your first application running.

, Using the Command-line Tool , installs and uses the command line tool to download an application from AppFog, then modifies and uploads it back to the cloud.

, Using Databases , uses AppFogs backend services to create a data store for your application.

, Creating an Application From Scratch , creates an application using only the command line tools and gets it running in the cloud.