The evolution of the Umbraco Cloud platform

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2. Umbraco HQ: The evolution of the
   Umbraco Cloud platform
   Martin Humlund Clausen - Cloud platform team lead
   Mikkel Holck Madsen - Umbraco Cloud mastermind
   

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3. Who are we?
   Martin H. Clausen
   - Umbraco Cloud Platform team lead
   Mikkel H. Madsen
   - Umbraco Cloud mastermind
   

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4. What is the
   platform team at
   Umbraco?
   

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5. Who is the
   platform team at
   Umbraco?
   

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6. "Umbraco Cloud should be the best
   place to run Umbraco.”
   Why this talk
   

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7. Chapter 1 - Where we started
   Chapter 2 - …
   Chapter 3 - …
   

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8. Cloud Team 2014/15
   Team
   

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9. Team
   

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10. Azure
    

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11. Platform
    

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12. Platform
    

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13. Platform
    

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14. Platform
    

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15. Platform
    

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16. Platform
    

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17. Azure
    

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18. CQRS
    Event Sourcing
    Infinite storage
    SignalR
    Long running processes
    ASP.NET MVC
    3
    .NET 4
    AngularJs
    Code
    

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19. Code
    

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20. It was perfect - until it wasn’t..
    It was perfect
    

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21. ● Time to provision
    new hardware
    ● Maintaining
    File servers!
    ● SQL server
    optimization
    ● Team scalability
    ● Unable to extend the Hosting
    platform further!
    

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22. Features
    Operations
    Single region
    

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23. Features
    Operations
    Single region
    

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24. Features
    Operations
    Features
    Operations
    Multi regions
    

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25. Features
    Operations
    Features
    Operations
    Multi regions
    Features
    Operations
    

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27. Chapter 1 - Where we started
    Chapter 2 - We need to do something, or else..
    Chapter 3 - …
    

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28. "Umbraco Cloud should be the best
    place to run Umbraco.”
    

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29. To not repeat history we had to ask ourselves
    "What do we need to change internally
    and what is the most important things to
    get done right”
    

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30. Provide guidelines and best practices
    Infrastructure as code
    Automated testing
    Observability
    Release with confidence
    Guiding principles
    

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31. Rethink
    Identify challenges with the infrastructure,
    and figure solutions to those challenges.
    

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32. ● Storage of website data
    ● CDN
    ● Control of traffic
    ● We don’t want to manage
    hardware
    ● Identity management
    ● Proven technology
    ● Hosting support
    ● We want to get back to deliver
    features to customers
    Challenges
    

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33. 2020
    2021
    2022
    ● Make us independent from the whitelabel solution
    ● Take ownership of hosting data
    ● Move to Azure blob for image storage
    ● Identity management - Umbraco Id
    

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34. 2020
    2021
    2022
    ● Introduce native Azure hosting
    ● Decomposing the monolith into dedicated services
    ● Remember “23.100.15.180” ?
    ● Introducing Cloudflare - taking control of traffic
    ● Migrated all websites away from AP and on to the new
    platform
    

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37. 2020
    2021
    2022
    ● Enabled CDN caching on content and media as well as
    automatic minification of css, js and html
    ● Regional Hosting
    

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38. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - old platform
    2022
    

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39. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - old platform
    Online 24/7
    2022
    

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40. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - old platform
    Online 24/7
    2022
    

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41. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - old platform
    Online 24/7
    2022
    

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42. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - old platform
    Online 24/7
    Constraints on
    - Scalability (time to run upgrades increased)
    - Performance
    - Hardware sitting idle for weeks
    2022
    

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43. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - new platform
    2022
    

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44. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - new platform
    On demand
    2022
    

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45. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - new platform
    2022
    

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46. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - new platform
    2022
    

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47. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - new platform
    2022
    

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48. 2020
    2021
    Automatic Upgrades - new platform
    2022 done
    

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50. Chapter 1 - Where we started
    Chapter 2 - This is meh, we need to do
    something, or else
    Chapter 3 - To infinity and beyond
    

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51. Umbraco Cloud is in a good place
    The foundation is right
    

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52. Idea:
    Feature environments
    

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53. Idea:
    Bring your own
    repository
    

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54. See you around at Codegarden
    Don’t be a stranger!
    We want to talk tech!
    Thank you for listening
    Microservices
    AKS (Kubernetes)
    Azure API Management
    Docker
    .NET 6
    Azure App Configuration
    KeyVault
    Terraform
    Cloudflare
    Domain Driven Design principles
    Event driven
    Automated testing
    Yaml pipelines
    SpecFlow
    Playwright
    Azure B2C
    

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