Cloud Computing And Architechture: Volume I

Cloud Computing and Architecture: Foundations, Systems, and Design Patterns for the Modern Distributed EnterpriseAn original 18-chapter textbook covering cloud computing from first principles through emerging directions - virtualization and containers, storage and networking, architecture patterns and security, scalability and reliability, serverless and microservices, edge computing and economics, and finally big data, DevOps, and quantum-cloud integration. Rather than treating each topic in isolation, the book is built around a small set of recurring ideas - the mathematics of elastic scaling, shared responsibility, designing for failure, redundancy versus dependency, and cost as an architectural dimension - that reappear and compound across chapters, culminating in a closing synthesis that ties them all together. Each chapter combines conceptual explanation with custom diagrams, worked numerical examples, code and infrastructure-as-code samples, and review questions, aimed at students and practitioners who want to understand not just what cloud technologies do, but why they're built the way they are.