Abstract
Over the past 5 years, cloud infrastructure has gone from a tax, cost-center, and afterthought – to being central to how modern businesses are reinventing themselves and innovating through cloud software. Infrastructure is no longer “boring.”
As a practitioner trying to succeed in this brave new world, though, what does this mean? It means tighter schedules, more complexity in the software we’re building and operating, and a breakdown in the old way of doing things. Kubernetes, Cloud Native, Serverless, Service Mesh… the new lingo to learn is endless!
“Cloud Engineering” is the practice of developers and infrastructure teams collaborating closely to build truly cloud native architectures. This means, on one hand, developers embracing the cloud in all aspects of the design, implementation, and maintenance of their applications; and, on the other hand, infrastructure teams applying more engineering practices with infrastructure as code, policy as code, testing, and CI/CD for infrastructure deployments. In doing so, teams can tame the complexity of the cloud, and collaborate in new and powerful ways.
“DevOps” laid the necessary but insufficient groundwork for this next major sea change. In this talk, we will explore the best practices such teams are using, so that you too can ship faster with confidence!
About Joe Duffy
Joe Duffy is Founder/CEO of Pulumi, a Seattle startup democratizing the cloud by way of “cloud engineering,” a new way of building software that radically embraces the cloud. Before Pulumi, Joe led developer strategy at Microsoft, and ran its languages, compilers, and tools teams. He helped create an open source culture, initiated the effort to bring .NET to many platforms, and built a distributed operating system’s programming language and developer platform. Joe has been doing software for 25 years, enjoys building amazing and innovative teams, and still loves to code as much as he can. Joe lives in Whidbey Island, WA, with his wife, Kim, and slightly neurotic but lovable pug, Percy.
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