BENEFITS OF CLOUD FOR DEVELOPER

Nowadays, the constant development of tools and technology helps programmers create more and more convenient and modern applications.

However, the standards for programmers’ work are also changing: need to reduce time to market, quickly fix errors in the program. And Cloud will help programmers and developers solve these difficulties.

Below are the advantages for developers when using cloud compared to using traditional tools to develop applications and software:

 

1. Scalability:

One of the biggest advantages of cloud systems is their unprecedented scalability compared to traditional storage.

In the traditional hosting model, you first need to determine the hardware your system will run on, then purchase, install and configure equipment on all the nodes in your system that will operate including web servers, application servers, database servers along with switches and routers for internet access. High availability (HA) applications also require load balancers and server clusters require dedicated storage area networks (SAN) at very high costs. All these requirements require careful planning and a sky-high budget, which will slow down the development of your application software.

The advent of cloud computing has made it possible to scale any part of your IT infrastructure quickly and easily. For example, with web and application servers, you can increase the hardware power by adding more cores or even adding new servers. With database servers, you can also scale easily by adding more RAM or adding new servers.

Cloud databases can also scale to increase the power of your servers. You can create an elastic database service that can share its processing power with any other database. That way, your database can scale up as needed within the limits of your Elastic Pool.

In addition, with the advent of microservices software development techniques (software modules are divided into very small services, each service is placed on a separate server to easily upgrade and expand applications), you can develop web applications based on modules. And if you increase the performance of a module, it also leads to increasing the power of the server that hosts that module.

2. Reduce costs:

The second important benefit of the cloud is cost savings, because you can start with a small, low-cost system and gradually upgrade as your needs grow without having to invest in an expensive and wasteful system from the beginning as in the traditional way. Specific economic benefits include:

No upfront investment required

Private data centers require a significant upfront investment. It also takes time and effort to analyze current and future equipment needs. As the number of users – clients and servers – increases, the IT infrastructure requires additional hardware and software.

If you use Cloud services, you won’t need to invest in any of the above.

Pay only for what you use

Most cloud providers only bill you for the resources you use. If needed, you can scale up or down the number of servers, as well as the number of cores, RAM… all allowing you to flexibly control costs.

3. Provide fast and flexible resources:

The rapid provisioning of resources in the cloud is a benefit that all application software development teams can benefit from. Programmers often need access to a variety of resources such as development and testing environments, or new technologies, operating systems that can be tested. Typically, the technical services team within a company is responsible for providing these resources. However, completing a given task can take days or even weeks, depending on the number of tasks that team members are working on at the same time.

When moving to the cloud, development teams are empowered to rapidly create entirely new environments – from databases to virtual machines and websites.

Additionally, cloud technology offers a nearly endless list of services that are constantly expanding. This allows development teams to try and use the most advanced technologies. Additionally, when developers no longer need some resources, they can quickly return them and no longer pay for them.

Finally, when using the cloud, it is possible to fully automate the resource provisioning process. That way, businesses can quickly create new databases or decommission them with test resources.

4. Disaster Recovery and Backup Capabilities:

Cloud services typically provide a greater level of redundancy, which plays an important role in disaster recovery. Without the cloud, businesses that want to ensure disaster recovery would need to build a separate data center and make additional investments. In addition, businesses would need to set up tools to replicate data or provide the backups needed to restore the system. This is not something that all businesses can do.

Cloud services can handle all of these issues without having to invest in any kind of IT infrastructure upfront. And the best part is that you only pay for the hardware when you actually use it. This allows you to prepare and configure your disaster recovery environment in advance so that it will work perfectly when needed.

5. Diversified models and services:

Another benefit of the cloud is that it allows businesses to choose from a variety of models and services. You will never be forced to choose a one-size-fits-all solution, as there are many options that you may never use.

Cloud providers typically offer a variety of options for setting up an environment to suit your business’s unique needs. Different cloud infrastructure models come with different shortcomings, and companies can combine two of them as needed. Whether you choose a managed or unmanaged service, all the power remains with your development team.

Cloud Computing Models:  Public Cloud, Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud.

Cloud service types:  Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (Saa)

Cloud hosting services:  Managed services, Unmanaged services.

6. Wide geographic reach:

Another benefit of the cloud is its absolute geographic reach. Instead of relying on just one data center in one geographic location to host your software, cloud services allow applications to be hosted in data centers around the globe.

By managing traffic and global application of master data, you can ensure that customers get the best possible performance of your application no matter where they are at the moment.

Businesses also use content delivery networks to increase geographic reach, even when the application is hosted in a single location. A content delivery network is a set of highly distributed services that respond directly to user requests, providing access to applications, audio, video, or other files. This reduces the number of requests made directly to your application and helps the application scale better.

7. Easy deployment:

Cloud services offer a number of unique features that allow teams to tackle deployments that were previously impossible. For example, by integrating a resource control system into your business, you can automate certain parts of the deployment process (like automatically provisioning servers or testing your application).

Cloud systems also provide the ability to perform seamless deployments in your production environment. Once you are sure everything is working correctly, you can easily swap roles from testing to production for live deployment.

Your development team can also use the cloud to route a small percentage of production traffic to test areas to test new features and ensure everything works correctly before rolling it out to users.