Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This how-to guide to good practices in the cloud is beginner-friendly but also takes a deep dive into topics such as architecting, scaling, and migrating. Author Emily Freeman covers topics including managing spend and measuring success. It's the ultimate guide for developers and DevOps engineers who have already started to work with cloud-based systems and those planning to make to leap.
Topics include:
- Migrating to the cloud
- Securing your system
- Spending money fast
- Managing data in the cloud
- Automating yourself out of a job
Synopsis
If you create, manage, operate, or configure systems running in the cloud, you're a cloud engineer--even if you work as a system administrator, software developer, data scientist, or site reliability engineer. With this book, professionals from around the world provide valuable insight into today's cloud engineering role.
These concise articles explore the entire cloud computing experience, including fundamentals, architecture, and migration. You'll delve into security and compliance, operations and reliability, and software development. And examine networking, organizational culture, and more. You're sure to find one, two, or 97 things that inspire you to dig deeper and expand your own career.
- "Three Keys to Making the Right Multi-Cloud Decisions"--Brendan O'Leary
- "Serverless Bad Practices"--Manases Jesus Galindo Bello
- "Failing a Cloud Migration"--Lee Atchison
- "Treat Your Cloud Environment as If It Were On-Premises"--Iyana Garry
- "What Is Toil, and Why Are SREs Obsessed with It?"--Zachary Nickens
- "Lean QA: The QA Evolving in the DevOps World"--Theresa Neate
- "How Economies of Scale Work in the Cloud"--Jon Moore
- "The Cloud Is Not About the Cloud"--Ken Corless
- "Data Gravity: The Importance of Data Management in the Cloud"--Geoff Hughes
- "Even in the Cloud, the Network Is the Foundation"--David Murray
- "Cloud Engineering Is About Culture, Not Containers"--Holly Cummins