How does software really work in the cloud and what does it look like? Okay hang on, before you answer that, how does software application development actually work in the cloud computing model of online-connected software-defined virtualization and abstraction?
These questions sound almost too fundamental to be sensible. Surely we just throw up our existing software ‘apps’ and connect them via cloud datacenter services? For some, maybe a little, yes. But unsurprisingly it’s not that simple.
