Conceptually, I can picture it in my mind: What is Cloud Computing. I can tell you about it. I’ve used several cloud service providers to create “Hello World”-type of work. Nothing too exciting to write home about.
My problem was, what is it that I should know? Cloud Computing is very deep and wide, how should I go about tackling that? When should I stop? Should I learn how to work with multiple providers? Should I specialize on parts of it? All of it?
So many questions… where do I start?
Like with all journeys, they start with the First Step.
Step 1: Pick a cloud, any cloud and open a free Developer’s account. If the provider you pick first does not have a free tear… move on to the next.
Step 2: Dissect and analyze each of the major components
– Geographical distribution
– Physical composition
– Map the network of locations
Step 3: Identify and understand each of its major components and
services:
– Storage services
– Compute services
– Network services
– CI/CD Services
– Data transfer services
– Options of packaged database solutions
– Options for APM
I will periodically update this blog and narrate to you my quest about each of the steps above and the outcome.
I picked AWS…
what will you pick? Happy clouding!