Your Coffee Shop Uses Cloud Computing

Author

Fehling, Christoph ; Leymann, Frank ; Retter, Ralph

Author_Institution

Inst. of Archit. of Applic. Syst., Univ. of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Volume

18

Issue

5

fYear

2014

fDate

Sept.-Oct. 2014

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

59

Abstract

IT applications and physical businesses often face similar challenges. Customers have to be served quickly; throughput and availability should increase. Concepts such as redundancy and parallelism are inherent in the architectural design of both worlds. However, the complexity of IT systems can hinder them from following architectural principles and design rules to obtain highly scalable and fault-resilient applications. The authors cover the architectural design phases of a cloud application and describe common best practices relevant in each phase. They use a coffee shop as a real-world analogy to avoid IT complexity.

Keywords

catering industry; cloud computing; customer services; software architecture; software fault tolerance; IT applications; IT complexity; IT system complexity; architectural design; architectural principles; cloud application; cloud computing; coffee shop; customer service; design rules; highly scalable fault-resilient application; parallelism; physical business; redundancy; Business; Cloud computing; Complexity theory; Process control; Servers; User interfaces; IT systems; cloud application design; cloud computing; cloud computing patterns;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2014.101

Filename

6886124