

Lee Atchison is the Senior Director, Cloud Architecture at New Relic. For the last seven years he has helped design and build a solid service-based product architecture that scaled from startup to high traffic public enterprise.
Meer over de auteursCultivating Cloud Outcomes
Simplify Operations, Enable Innovation, and Cultivate Successful Cloud Outcomes
Paperback Engels 2022 1e druk 9781492098492Samenvatting
The cloud promises cost savings, agility, and more. But the increasing complexity of modern IT systems often prevents businesses from realizing the outcomes they sought by moving to the cloud in the first place. At the core of this complexity is technical debt. Ad hoc decisions, traditional approaches, and "quick and dirty" solutions add up to fragile, more complex systems (and organizations)--reducing the pace of change, driving up costs, and degrading security. To succeed in the cloud, you first have to manage the problems IT complexity creates. This practical guide will help.
If you're tasked with designing, delivering, or approving IT systems that support business growth, this book will teach you the principles and strategies you need to break out of silos, reassess traditional thinking, provide the business a better competitive position, and achieve cloud success across the company.
You'll learn:
- How to assess your current IT environment to identify complexity-centered risks
- How to structure cross-functional teams to reduce friction points
- How to create a framework for IT investments that's aligned with your business goals
- How to measure your outcomes for continued success
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
The Growing Complexity of IT Environments
Preface
More Information
O'Reilly Online Learning
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
1. What Is the Modern IT Complexity Dilemma?
The Structure of Modern IT Organizations
The Role of Software Development in IT Organizations
Development and Operations in the IT Organization
The Advent of Complexity
Technical Debt: The Key to Complexity
The Organizational Pain of Complexity
Complexity in an IT Organization
IT Death
What Makes a Mature IT Organization
Summary
2. Auditing and Assessing Your IT Ecosystem
Auditing Versus Assessment
What Do You Measure?
Why Do You Measure?
Measure-Try-Measure-Refine
The Benefits of Measurement
How Deep Do You Measure?
Adaptive Assessment
The Value of an Adaptive Assessment
Creating an Adaptive Assessment
Decisions Based on Adaptive Assessments
Loose Coupling
Examples of Adaptive Assessments
Example 1: The Brainstorming Adaptive Assessment
Example 2: The Cloud Tagging Adaptive Assessment
The Survey Analogy
Summary
3. Moving to an Adaptive Architecture
Adaptive Architectures
Adaptive Architectures in Action
Autoscaling
Self-Healing
Infrastructure as Code
Developing in a Production-Like Environment
Load Testing
Cost of Adaptive Architecture in Increased Complexity
Example: Reducing Complexity with Tiered Security
Summary
4. Managing Knowledge
Knowledge Variability: Choice Versus Complexity
Managing Knowledge Requirements
Centralized Configuration
Maintaining a Centralized Single Source of Truth
Are You in Control?
Reuse
Pattern 1: Copy/Paste Reuse
Pattern 2: Layered/Template Reuse
Example: Router Configuration Files
Summary
5. Creating Your Technology Investment Framework
Technology Investment Framework Categories
IT Investment Example: Are You in the Datacenter Business?
IT Investment Example: Should You Be in the Logistics Business?
IT Investment Example: How Can You Leverage Strength to Transform?
Shifting Investments
Summary
6. Starting the Conversation
Index
About the Author
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