Cloud Computing by @astromoose

Jon blathers to his colleagues about why Cloudy thinking is good (and not good). NaaS - Nonsense as a Service!

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1. Cloudy Thinking @astromoose Sunday, 9 September 12
2. So, Cloud Computing. Sunday, 9 September 12
3. EH? So, Cloud Computing. Sunday, 9 September 12
4. Sunday, 9 September 12
5. It’s all rather Confusing. Sunday, 9 September 12
6. Mixed Messages Vendors Consultants Press Blogs Colleagues Sunday, 9 September 12
7. Mixed Messages Vendors Consultants Press Blogs Colleagues :( Sunday, 9 September 12
8. THE IMPORTANT STUFF Sunday, 9 September 12
9. THE IMPORTANT STUFF (SO SAYS JON, ANYWAY) Sunday, 9 September 12
10. Infrastructure Platform Software Sunday, 9 September 12
11. AS Infrastructure Platform Software Sunday, 9 September 12
12. AS Infrastructure Platform Software A Sunday, 9 September 12
13. AS Infrastructure Platform Software A SERVICE Sunday, 9 September 12
14. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Sunday, 9 September 12
15. •Virtual Machines, running a proper OS •Network stuff like Load balancers, Firewalls and IP Addresses •File and Block based storage •Bare Metal as a Service is a thing too Sunday, 9 September 12
16. Good tools are REALLY IMPORTANT for this IaaS stuff Sunday, 9 September 12
17. Platform as a Service (PaaS) Sunday, 9 September 12
18. PROBABLY™ the most relevant to Developers Sunday, 9 September 12
19. They do get around, hey Google App Engine Sunday, 9 September 12
20. PaaS offerings facilitate the deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software and provisioning hosting capabilities. source - wikipediaaaargh “ ” Sunday, 9 September 12
21. AWESOME AWESOME Basically, you can get on with making your app AWESOME ...and leave the boring server stuff to people who really care about it Sunday, 9 September 12
22. THE TWELVE-FACTOR APP http://12factor.net Sunday, 9 September 12
23. THE TWELVE-FACTOR APP http://12factor.net (can’t recommend it enough, it’s like a whole talk’s worth of goodness in there) Sunday, 9 September 12
24. Software as a Service (SaaS) Sunday, 9 September 12
25. There’s stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks and Sunday, 9 September 12
26. SaaS is that last layer, it's the app you're using in your web browser right now source - me, I guess “ ” Sunday, 9 September 12
27. So why should we think cloudy? Sunday, 9 September 12
28. Lowers those nasty barriers to entry Sunday, 9 September 12
29. Lowers those nasty barriers to entry PRICE Sunday, 9 September 12
30. Lowers those nasty barriers to entry PRICE EXPERTISE Sunday, 9 September 12
31. Lowers those nasty barriers to entry PRICE EXPERTISE TIME TO MARKET Sunday, 9 September 12
32. Lowers those nasty barriers to entry PRICE EXPERTISE TIME TO MARKET RISKYNESSNESS Sunday, 9 September 12
33. SCALINGG! IaaS Caveat - It’s not automatic unless you build it to be automatic! Sunday, 9 September 12
34. (Flat out stolen from 12factor.net) •Divide apps into types of work •Separate quick/slow processes •Rely on the OS or Platform to manage process lifecycle Sunday, 9 September 12
35. RESILIENCE! IaaS Caveat - It’s not automatic unless you build it to be automatic! Sunday, 9 September 12
36. If you’re using IaaS Use clever stuff like chef to treat your Infrastructure as code - it’s the easiest way to avoid being locked into one provider Most IaaS outfits provide ‘Availability zones’ - use them (or at least understand how they work) Monitoring, monitoring, monitoring Backups, backups, backups Sunday, 9 September 12
37. Are there any problems with thinking cloudy? Sunday, 9 September 12
38. Absolutely. Cloud Computing isn’t a silver bullet - so far from it I can't eeeeeven tell you Migrating is way harder than building from scratch When built wrong, it can go REALLY wrong Cloud Computing is still a maturing concept Experience and expertise is comparitively thin on the ground Sunday, 9 September 12
39. Questions? Sunday, 9 September 12