In This October Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

COVER STORY

• Cloud Databases: Connectivity and Platform Options
  By Ken North
Selecting a database platform, with its associated tools and middleware choices, for deployment in the cloud is a daunting task. Whether hosting a new database or moving existing databases to the cloud, you�ll need to understand the present application architecture, and this article will help inform your decisions.


• Getting Started with the Cloud: Amazon Web Services
  By Andrew Glover
The ability to rapidly provision a wide range of computing resources on a pay-as-you-go basis has ushered in a new era of innovation; and the most widely used cloud platform is easy to configure and run, once you know how.



EDITORIAL

• Who Are You?
  By Andrew Binstock
Knowing your biases and preferences makes you a much better team-member.


• From the Vault: Single Inheritance Classes in C
  By Ron Kreymborg
Achieving C with Classes without resorting to C++.


• Letters
  By you
Readers weigh in on all manner of matters.


• Links
  
Snapshots of the most interesting articles on drdobbs.com including User-Defined Hash Functions for Unordered Maps in C++0x and Running CUDA Code Natively on X86 processors.

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