3 ways to improve cloud performance

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Performance issues hold back some cloud computing efforts. This happens because many of those who stand up cloud-based applications did not account for the latency systemic to many cloud-based systems.

For the most part, these performance issues are caused by the fact that cloud-based applications are typically widely distributed, with the data far away from the application logic, which itself may be far away from the user. Unless careful planning has gone into the design of the system, you’re going to run into latency and even reliability issues…

Here are three things to look at to get good cloud computing performance.

First, focus on the architecture and planning. At the end of the day, you’re dealing with widely distributed, loosely coupled systems where the data, the application, and the human or machine that consumes the application services could be thousands of miles apart. Thus, you need to create an architecture designed explicitly to deal with the latency. Techniques include using buffers or a cache, as well as moving components that constantly chat closer together physically…

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