The discussion questions this week are from Chapter's 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 (Jamsa, 2013). Each chapter 4 topics and use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.
Chapter 16 topics:
· Define and describe a capital expense. How are capital expenses different from operational expenses?
· Define and describe economies of scale and provide a cloud-based example.
· Define and describe “right sizing” as it pertains to cloud computing.
· Define Moore’s law and discus how it might influence cloud migration.
Chapter 17 topics:
· Compare and contrast functional and nonfunctional requirements and provide an example of each.
· Discuss why a designer should avoid selecting an implementation platform for as long as possible during the design process.
· Discuss various trade-offs a designer may need to make with respect to nonfunctional requirements.
· Discuss why the system maintenance phase is often the most expensive phase of the software development life cycle.
Chapter 18 topics:
· Using Yahoo! Pipes, create a pipe that displays the names of pizza restaurants within a given zip code.
· Using Google App Engine, create a page that displays the following Python script:
. print "Content-type: text/htmlnn"
. print "<html>Cloud Computing, Chapter 18</html>"
Chapter 19 topics:
· Define scalability.
· List five to ten potential relationships that align with the Pareto principle, such as how 80 percent of sales come from 20 percent of customers.
· Compare and contrast vertical and horizontal scaling.
· Explain the importance of the database read/write ratio.
Chapter 20 topics:
· List and describe five ways you think the cloud will change the future of TV.
· List and describe five potential uses for intelligent fabric.
· Discuss how the cloud will impact future operating systems.
· List and describe three potential location-aware applications.
Please write 2-3 pages with no plagiarism and need this document tomorrow Tuesday at 3 PM EST time.
