Picturing The Jigsaw

See Also

• Clouds is the Lab Clouds home page
• CloudsPiecesOfTheJigsaw for Cloud enabled tools and technologies

Design Global, Code Local

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Engineer for serendipity

Roy Fielding , email communication

The cloud is as relevant to the small as the large.

The means now exist to dynamically add significant capacity

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to any application engineered for the cloud. Being able to dynamically scale up

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allows an organisation to take full advantage of opportunities as they present themselves

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The challenge for architects, designers and engineers is to create systems which are ready when the big break arrives. Few excuses for a failure to scale remain.

1. Up to the plastic limit ↩
2. And to scale down again once the fashion curve has peaked ↩
3. Without being constrained by estimates of predicated peak demand planned months or years previously. See CloudsNinjaOpsTeam#Agility. ↩