Episode 2: Shoving a SAN into us-east-1

March 21, 2018 00:35:09
Episode 2: Shoving a SAN into us-east-1
Screaming in the Cloud
Episode 2: Shoving a SAN into us-east-1

Mar 21 2018 | 00:35:09

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Show Notes

When companies migrate to the Cloud, they are literally changing how they do everything in their IT department. If lots of customers exclusively rely on a service, like us-east-1, then they are directly impacted by outages. There is safety in a herd and in numbers because everybody sits there, down and out. But, you don’t engineer your application to be a little more less than a single point of failure. It’s a bad idea to use a sole backing service for something, and it’s unacceptable from a business perspective.

Today, we’re talking to Chris Short from the Cloud and DevOps space. Recently, he was recognized for his DevOps’ish newsletter and won the Opensource.com People’s Choice Award for his DevOps writing. He’s been blogging for years and writing about things that he does every day, such as tutorials, codes, and methods. Now, Chris, along with Jason Hibbets, run the DevOps team for Opensource.com

Some of the highlights of the show include:

Links:

Chris Short on Twitter

DevOps'ish

SJ Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Cloud Native Infrastructure

Oracle

OpenShift

Puppet

Kubernetes

Simon Wardley

Rackspace

The Mythical Man-Month

Atlassian

BuzzFeed

Quotes by Chris:

“Let’s not say that they’re going whole hog Cloud Native or whole hog cloud for that matter but they wanna utilize some things.”

“They can never switch from one to the other very easily, but they want to be able to do that in the Cloud and you end up biting off a lot more than you can chew…”

“Create them in AWS. Go. They gladly slurp in all your VM where instances you can create a mapping of this sized thing to that sized thing and off you go. But it’s a good strategy to just get there.”

“We have to get better as technologists in making changes and helping people embrace change.”

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