What exactly is the cloud, and how can it help you?
Before the 2010s, if you’d heard the word cloud, you would have imagined some sort of cluster of soft-looking water in a gas state floating in the sky. However, nowadays, when you hear cloud, you might imagine some application that allows you to store data or use some device without the need for local ones. A cluster of powerful computers or other devices stored in multiple secure undisclosed locations might also come to your imagination, as this is how the services are implemented in reality.
Whichever the definition, for most of the 2010s, it was the hot topic, and everybody seemed to want things to happen in the cloud. And that’s how mostly everything was reborn, by adding “...in the cloud” after it. Your data? In the cloud. Your applications? In the cloud. Your testing? In the cloud!
Even though enthusiasm about the topic sounds slightly colder now, since many companies are providing their own...
