You’ve made it!! After months of development work, your consumer facing application has been released to the general public and appears to be performing properly. Your “code child” has weathered its first small surge of traffic too and you’re feeling confident with its future success due to strong performance tests…

Over the past few years, significant advances in the availability of cloud computing resources and Platform as a Service (PaaS) code execution environments has drastically reduced the amount of time required to deploy applications. This speed and agility adds a significant advantage for individuals and businesses that leverage these technologies…