Chapter 8. Deploying Your Web Application to the Cloud
In this chapter, we'll take a tour of the different cloud providers, understand the challenges and benefits of a distributed architecture, and see how to deploy your web application to Pivotal Web Services and to Heroku.
Choosing your host
There are many forms of cloud hosting. For developers, the choice will be mainly between a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Using the latest, you will often have a bare metal machine that you can manage and on which you can install all the services required by your application.
If we leave aside technologies such as Docker (which is absolutely amazing, you should absolutely give it a try), this is really similar to traditional ...
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