ABSTRACT
The scale of economy of cloud computing has ignited wide-spread imaginations. With the promises of mighty computing power at unbelievable prices, all applications are poised to gain mission critical status. The fundamentals on cloud application architecture, however, are surprisingly short. For example, how can mission critical applications leverage the cloud resources? Would non-mission critical applications gain mission critical status by moving to the cloud? This chapter attempts to fill in the fundamentals for mission critical networked computing applications.
