Best practices in cloud computing: designing for the cloud

  • Authors:
  • Ruth G. Lennon;Lars Arne Skår;Morten Udnæs;Arne Jørgen Berre;Amir Zeid;Dumitru Roman;Einar Landre;Willem-Jan van den Heuvel

  • Affiliations:
  • Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland;Miles Consulting, OSLO, Norway;Miles Consulting, Oslo, Norway;Sintef, OSLO, Norway;American University of Kuwait , Safat 13034, Kuwait;University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria;StatoilHydro, Stavanger, Norway;European Research Institute of Services Science , 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Cloud computing is the latest technology evolution and potential silver bullet, and there is both great expectation and fear to what consequences these technologies might cause. Based on the experience with the lack of adoption of SOA among the general development community the recommendation is to make sure that the development community engage in how cloud computing evolves. Although there is already strong support for these technologies from companies such as IBM and Microsoft, there is a need to explore good ways of designing services for the Cloud to ensure quality and productivity. There are movements in the modelling community that require further investigation as well as surviving concepts from the SOA era that need to be captured. In addition - due to the potential rapid availability of services in the cloud it is important to start exploring consequences of using such services, for instance access control, regulatory issues, development practices, security and practical operational issues. Capturing and discussing best practices on these subjects will contribute to a healthy movement in the right direction for those who will develop services for the Cloud.