A look at design concepts when building solutions in the cloud.

1. Cloud Computing
Design Considerations
Kavis Technology Consulting
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2. Scalability

3. independence

4. CUSTOMERS
Tenant 1
Tenant 2
Tenant 3
Tenant 4
Tenant 5
Tenant 6
APPLICATIONS
B2C Site
B2B Site
Payments
Reporting
Inventory
Billing
Noimpact
on other
TENANTS
Noimpact
on other
APPLICATIONS
CUSTOMER
independence
APPLICATION
independence

8. Multi-tenancy

9.  Independence
 privacy
 Highest Scalability
 Highest Cost
 Minimal reuse
 Highest Complexity
Database Server
App Server
Tenant 1 App Tenant 2 App
Tenant 1 Tenant 2
Total Isolation

10.  independence
 privacy
 optimal Scalability
 Cost effective
 Inefficient for small tenants
 Moderate Complexity
Database Server
App Server
Tenant 1 Tenant 2
Shared
App2App1
Data Isolation

11.  Least complex
 Most Cost effective
 Lack of independence
 performance
 scalability
Data segregation
App Server
Shared
Database Server
Tenant 1
Tenant 2
App 2App 1

12. Data segregation
App Server
Shared
Database Server
Tenant 1
Tenant 2
App 2App 1
Database Server
App Server
Tenant 1 Tenant 2
Shared
App2App1
Data Isolation
Hybrid approach

13. Client
Request
ElasticIP174.23.234.66
Internal IP
12.345.67.89
Internal IP
12.345.55.92
Response
Status 200 - OK
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customer id="1">
<custno>57832</custno>
<firstname>John</firstname>
<lastname>Smith</lastname>
<address>
<number>41</number>
<Main St</street>
<city>Midtown</city>
<state>NY</state>
<zip>12345</zip>
<country>USA</country>
</address>
<email>jsmith@example.com</email>
<phone>123-456-7890</phone>
</customer>
Get http:/www.mydomain.com/customer/57832
Accept: application/xml
Resource
State
Doing REST Right

14. Client
Request
Response
Status 504 – Timeout
ElasticIP174.23.234.66
Internal IP
12.345.67.89
Internal IP
12.345.55.92
Retry
Response
Status 200 - OK
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customer id="1">
<custno>57832</custno>
<firstname>John</firstname>
<lastname>Smith</lastname>
<address>
<number>41</number>
<Main St</street>
<city>Midtown</city>
<state>NY</state>
<zip>12345</zip>
<country>USA</country>
</address>
<email>jsmith@example.com</email>
<phone>123-456-7890</phone>
</customer>
Get http:/www.mydomain.com/customer/57832
Accept: application/xml
Get http:/www.mydomain.com/customer/57832
Accept: application/xml
Resource
State
Doing REST Right

15. data

16. Right tool for the right job
• Physical characteristics
• Performance characteristics
• Volatility
• Volume
• Transaction boundaries
• Retention period
• Regulatory requirements

17. When to use RDbMS
 OLTP
 Table based
 Referential Integrity
 ACID Transactions
Company Employees

18. When to use Nosql
Key Value Store
 Best for content caching, Fast lookups
 Redis, MemcacheDB
Column Store
 Best for huge data volumes, Fast lookups, Distributed data
 Cassandra, Hbase
 Great for static, historical data
Document Databases
 Best for versioning various documents and formats
 CouchDB, Mongo
Graph Databases
 Best for complex relationships, social networks
 Neo, Infogrid

19. Hybrid

20. Security

22. Private
Cloud
Customer
owns it all

23. IaaS
Customer is
responsible
for App Stack
and up.

24. PaaS
Customer is
responsible
for
Application
and up.

25. SaaS
Customer
only deals
with
administering
IDs

26. Auditing
 SSAE-16: SOC 2
 ISO 27001
 HIPAA
 PCI
 Safe harbor
 Software escrow

27. Auditing

28. Monitoring
 Security
 Performance
 Capacity
 Uptime
 Throughput
 SLA
 User metrics
 Kpis
 Log file analysis

29. Logging

30. Intrusion
Detection
Trouble
Shooting
Centralized logging
 Lock down server access
 Searchable logs
 Easier to audit
 Easier to find patterns
Logging

31. Service Level agreements
Customer demands
 Uptime
 Page load time
 Api response time
 Reporting times
 Incident resolution

32. Disaster recovery

33. Disaster recovery
RTO (Recovery Time Objective)
“Time to be back up & running”
RPO (Recovery Point Objective)
“Maximum time in which data is lost”
Value
“How much money is recovery worth?”

34. Disaster recovery

35. Disaster recovery

36. Disaster recovery

37. Disaster recovery

38. Role of Devops
 Asset management
 Policy Enforcement
 Disaster Recovery
 Access Controls
 Monitoring - Operations
 Deployments– App Dev
 Support – APP Dev & Operations
Own Outright Shared Responsibility
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39. Team Roles
 DevOps
 Architects
 App Dev
 QA
 Scrum Master
 Build Management
 Security
 Devops
 Help Desk
 Computer Operations
 Account Manager
 Field Support
 QA
 App Dev
 Finance
Development Support

40. Business Impacts
Accounting/Finance
• Capex vs Opex
• Pay-as-you-go  Harder to forecast costs
• Pricing  Balance revenue with platform costs
Legal
• More rigorous RFP Process
• Regulations – SOC2, PCI, ISO27001, SOX, PII, Safeharbor, software escrow, etc.
• Country specific rules on privacy and data
Human Resources
• Cloud requires many new skillsets
• Training
• Recruiting (skill shortage, remote and global workers)
• New incentives
Sales
• Shorter implementation cycles – Sell and go
• Need to understand basics of cloud computing, especially when it comes to defending security
• Need to discuss issues like privacy and SLAs

41. Thank You
articles for each topic at this link
Design strategies for cloud computing