Preface

This is a book for you, the developer, who lives in his/her comfort zone. This book is made up of the experience gained during the evolution of the Web from its inception (the nineties) to the present. Earlier, you used a single reference architecture and reused it as many times as possible. This is because you grew up in an object-oriented development era with a focus on tools and languages. Therefore, you are used to developing web and applications in the same manner using the same tools. You find moving away from a monolithic, three tier, strongly-coupled, SQL-based, on-premise, web-only development environment uncomfortable.

This is a book for you, the developer, who does not know why you should move away from your comfort zone, or you do not find real value evolving your skills and embrace the cloud.

You are not alone; many other developers over the world feel the same way we did just quite some time ago.