Recommended Reading
The main source of this module will be the slides (plus the explicit reading list that may be announced for a week).
That said, the following is a list of highly recommended textbooks for your reference:
Dan C. Marinescu, "Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice". Newnes, 2013.[ebook available from the QMUL library]
K. Chandrasekaran, "Essentials of Cloud Computing", CRC Press, 2014.
Nayan B. Ruparelia, "Cloud Computing", MIT Press, 2016.
Barrie Sosinsky, "Cloud Computing Bible", John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Luiz André Barroso, Jimmy Clidaras, Urs Hölzle, "The Datacenter as a Computer: An introduction to the design of warehouse-scale machines", Synthesis lectures on computer architecture, 8.3 (2013). [ If logged in from the university, this is available from IEEExplore: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6812618 ]
Michael J. Kavis, "Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS)". John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
Viktor Farcic, "The DevOps Toolkit" (Series), Leanpub, 2016.
Thomas Erl, Robert Cope, Amin Naserpour, "Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology, & Architecture", The Prentice Hall Service Technology Series/Pearson Education, 2013.
Thomas Erl, Robert Cope, Amin Naserpour, "Cloud Computing Design Patterns", Prentice Hall Press, 2015.
Sam Newman, "Building Microservices", O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2015.
Arshdeep Bahga, Vijay Madisetti, "Cloud Computing: A Hands-on Approach". CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.