Cloud Computing: Building the Best Mission Critical Business Applications

December 8, 2013 Off By David
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Grazed from Hosting.com.  Author: James Schwartz.

Yesterday, Parker Snyder of Migration Services at HOSTING shared his thoughts on what went wrong with healthcare.gov. Today, he shares his thoughts on how mission critical business applications can be developed properly, to avoid embarrassing mistakes.

Parker says to start by taking your projects end goal, in its entirety, and add every involved component together. Observe where the scope crosses boundaries of solutions. For illustrative purposes, let’s think of this in terms of an MS SQL cluster… what real boundaries does it cross?

  1. Network
  2. Storage
  3. Hardware
  4. Abstraction layers (i.e. VMware, disk replication, etc.)…

Above, there are already 4 systems with intricacies in and of themselves that increase the scope exponentially. Now, imagine that you had built this cluster and released it to the world using our second complex system rule mentioned yesterday. This rule assumes it is completely broken. Where would you look?  At a basic level, there are 4 items directly above that can highlight the precise areas where you would at least start to diagnose such a system…

Read more from the source @ http://www.hosting.com/cloud-computing-blog/building-best-mission-critical-business-applications/

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