CHAPTER 15

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Connecting to Data in the Cloud

We love standards—that’s why we have so many of them.

—Author Unknown

Modern applications are increasingly connected, often storing little or no permanent data on the device running the application and instead relying on one or more external services to handle storage, retrieval, or manipulation of data. This implies that communication has to take place between the client and server in order for the application’s job to get done. Communication of any sort requires not only the parties involved in the exchange to exchange data but for that data to be exchanged in a way that allows it to be understood ...

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