I was asked to speak at an event, Expert Talks, in Manchester. This was originally scheduled before the summer break, but some football event was happening on the some night.
In the talk I share my four steps to running an application in the cloud.
- Cloud first Application
- Automation
- Scaling for flexible workloads
- Keeping the data safe
Someone once said to me 'Anyone can spin up a server in AWS', that is true. But it usually takes a bit of work to get that server to work for you.
Either some serious setup and automation before the button is clicked, or a lot of manual work after it is up and running.
The main problem with the latter manual work, is the fact that cheap cloud based servers WILL fail. You must be ready for that. By automating the steps, server build and setup of the server, when it fails, it can recover itself.