Implement elasticity

Elasticity is a natural faeature of the cloud but not traditional applications. Software engineers must think how they can take advantage of the these natural cloud features.

Most software engineers do not consider the lifecycle of an application once they have given it over to the team who will deploy it.

In order to take advantage of cloud features such as elasticity, software engineers need to think about

How do you bootstrap an application
How will be sessions be handled
How do you handle tokens that are passed between two endpoints shared with other replicated application instances

It’s not sufficient to write the code and throw it over the wall and say “it’s your responsibility now”