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Organisations and enterprise firms, from banks to social Web, are considering developing and deploying applications on the cloud due to the benefits offered by them. These benefits include cost effectiveness, scalability and theoretically unlimited computing resources. Many predictions by experts have indicated that centralising the computation and storage by renting them from third-party provider is the way to the future. However, before jumping into conclusions, engineers and technology officers must assess and weigh the advantages of cloud applications over concerns, challenges and limitations of cloud-based applications. Decisions must also involve choosing the right service model and knowing the disadvantages and limitations pertaining to that particular service model. Although cloud applications have benefits a galore, organisations and developers have raised concerns over the security and reliability issues. The idea of handing important data over to another company certainly has security and confidentiality worries. The implication does not infer that cloud applications are insecure and flawed but conveys that they require more attention to cloud-related issues than the conventional on-premise approaches. The objective of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the challenges of cloud application development and to present ways in which these challenges can be overcome. The chapter also discusses the issues with respect to different service models and extends the challenges with reference to application developer’s perspective.
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Pramod, N., Muppalla, A.K., Srinivasa, K.G. (2013). Limitations and Challenges in Cloud-Based Applications Development. In: Mahmood, Z., Saeed, S. (eds) Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5031-2_3
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