‘The server is dead’ – while Cloud computing has been experiencing a period of unprecedented growth, we see several factors responsible for this, including the rise of mobile computing, increased maturity of cloud offerings, improved network performance, and more.   With its pay-as-you-go model being a significant factor, enterprise IT has increased adoption of the cloud where a customer pays for resources leased from the cloud provider only and could get as many resources as needed without the up-front cost. Unfortunately, the onus of scaling was left behind for developers and system designers, who usually used overprovisioning techniques to process sudden spikes in service requests.

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