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“The cloud” is the new technology buzzword. It seems like everyone is talking about “moving to the cloud,” but few people really know what that means, least of all how to take advantage of it. With every technology shift, there are people who think that the new technology will solve all of their problems, without even taking inventory of what those problems are. Many technologies make promises, and some of those are even true, but for them to come true, you have to use the technology in the right way.
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Bartlett, J. (2019). Introduction. In: Building Scalable PHP Web Applications Using the Cloud. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5212-3_1
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