Well, I don't have too much control over the cover design - O'Reilly does that. I did pick the animal. The animal is a 'dhole' which is popularly called a 'red

Well, I don't have too much control over the cover design - O'Reilly does that. I did pick the animal. The animal is a 'dhole' which is popularly called a 'red dog'. 'Red Dog' happens to the original secret code name for the Windows Azure project. How that code name came to be is an interesting story in itself and I open Chapter 1 with that.