Service Quality of Cloud-Based Applications

Description

This book explains why applications running on cloud might not deliver the same service reliability, availability, latency and overall quality to end users as they do when the applications are running on traditional (non-virtualized, non-cloud) configurations, and explains what can be done to mitigate that risk.Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–5): Chapter 2 Application Service Quality (pages 9–28): Chapter 3 Cloud Model (pages 29–47): Chapter 4 Virtualized Infrastructure Impairments (pages 49–63): Chapter 5 Application Redundancy and Cloud Computing (pages 67–95): Chapter 6 Load Distribution and Balancing (pages 97–109): Chapter 7 Failure Containment (pages 111–125): Chapter 8 Capacity Management (pages 127–143): Chapter 9 Release Management (pages 145–161): Chapter 10 End‐to‐End Considerations (pages 163–189): Chapter 11 Accountabilities for Service Quality (pages 193–212): Chapter 12 Service Availability Measurement (pages 213–231): Chapter 13 Application Service Quality Requirements (pages 233–241): Chapter 14 Virtualized Infrastructure Measurement and Management (pages 243–254): Chapter 15 Analysis of Cloud‐Based Applications (pages 255–272): Chapter 16 Testing Considerations (pages 273–286): Chapter 17 Connecting the Dots (pages 287–301):