Designing applications for cloud deployment

During the last two years, I was involved in several projects deployed on the Amazon cloud. Being a relatively early adopter was a fantastic experience that provided lots of opportunities to burn my fingers and learn from mistakes. It also seriously challenged my view of scalable software architectures. I spoke about key lessons learned at CloudCamp London last week – here is the summary of that presentation.

• ⇒Stu Charlton on Cloud Computing
• ⇒Some thoughts on memory based architectures (aka why memcached isn't good enough)
• ⇒The OpenCloud is Hazy
• ⇒Geir Magnusson on Cloud Computing
• ⇒Microsoft preps for open-source cloud apps