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Read Aloud Cloud: An Innocent's Guide to the Tech Inside

Read Aloud Cloud: An Innocent's Guide to the Tech Inside

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The Read-Aloud Cloud is a sneaky-informative tour through the past, present, and future of cloud computing, from mainframes to serverless and from the Internet of Things to artificial intelligence, designed to make these vital concepts easier to understand and more memorable. Forrest is a professional explainer whose conference talks and viral cartoon graphics have been teaching engineers to cloud for years.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2020
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

What is “the cloud”? Is it here or there? Should it be allowed? Should I even care?

Have you ever imagined the internet as a giant Rube Goldberg machine? Or the fast-evolving cloud computing space as a literal jungle filled with prehistoric beasts? Does a data breach look like a neo-noir nightmare full of turned-up coat collars and rain-soaked alleys? Wouldn’t all these vital concepts be easier to understand if they looked as interesting as they are? And wouldn’t they be more memorable if we could explain them in rhyme? Whether you’re a kid or an adult, the answer is: YES!

The medicine in this spoonful of sugar is a sneaky-informative tour through the past, present and future of cloud computing, from mainframes to serverless and from the Internet of Things to artificial intelligence. Forrest is a professional explainer whose highly-rated conference talks and viral cartoon graphics have been teaching engineers to cloud for years. He knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. But he has plenty of words, too.

Your hotel key, your boarding pass,
The card you swipe to pay for gas,
The smart TV atop the bar,
The entertainment in your car,
Your doorbell, toothbrush, thermostat,
The vacuum that attacked your cat,
They all connect the cloud and you.
Maybe they shouldn't, but they do. 

As a graduation gift (call it “Oh the Places You’ll Go” for engineering students), a cubicle conversation starter, or just a delightfully nerdy bedtime story for your kids, “The Read-Aloud Cloud” will be the definitive introduction to the technologies that everyone uses and nobody understands. You can even read it silently if you want. But good luck with that.

Weight: 306g
Dimension: 242 x 189 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119677628

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