97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know by Emily Freeman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Preface

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I. Fundamentals 1. What Is the Cloud?

Nathen Harvey

2. Why the Cloud?

Nathen Harvey

Understand the Role of Technology Automate the Cloud Measure Progress Getting Started > Getting Finished

3. Three Keys to Making the Right Multicloud Decisions

Brendan O’Leary

4. Use Managed Services—Please

Dan Moore

5. Cloud for Good Should Be Your Next Project

Delali Dzirasa

6. A Cloud Computing Vocabulary

Jonathan Buck

7. Why Every Engineer Should Be a Cloud Engineer

Michelle Brenner

8. Managing Up: Engaging with Executives on the Cloud

Reza Salari

II. Architecture 9. The Future of Containers: What’s Next?

Chris Hickman

MicroVMs Unikernels So, What’s Next?

10. Understanding Scalability

Duncan Mackenzie

Scaling Options

Scaling Up Scaling Out

Keep Scalability in Mind, but Don’t Overdo It

11. Don’t Think of Services, Think of Capabilities

Haishi Bai

12. You Can Cloudify Your Monolith

Jake Echanove

13. Integrating Microservices in Cloud Native Architecture

Kasun Indrasiri

14. Containers Aren’t Magic

Katie McLaughlin

15. Your CIO Wants to Replatform Only Once

Kendall Miller

16. Practice Visualizing Distributed Systems

Kim Schlesinger

17. Know Where to Scale

Lisa Huynh

Vertical Scaling Horizontal Scaling Conclusion

18. Serverless Bad Practices

Manasés Jesús Galindo Bello

Deploying a Lot of Functions Calling a Function Synchronously Calling a Function Asynchronously Employing Many Libraries Using Many Technologies Not Documenting Functions

19. Getting Started with AWS Lambda

Marko Sluga

Building an Event Handler and Testing the Lambda Function

20. It’s OK if You’re Not Running Kubernetes

Mattias Geniar

The Media Tells Us Only Half the Truth There’s Still Much to Improve on the Old and Boring Side of Technology But Don’t Sit Still

21. Know Thy Topology

Nikhil Nanivadekar

Modularity Deployment Strategy Datacenter Affinity

22. System Fundamentals Will Still Bite You

Noah Abrahams

23. Cloud Processing Is Not About Speed

Rustem Feyzkhanov

24. How Serverless Simplifies the Developer Experience

Wietse Venema

III. Migration 25. People Will Expect Things—Help Them Expect Right

Dave Stanke

26. Failing a Cloud Migration

Lee Atchison

Mistake 1: Not Optimizing for the Cloud Mistake 2: Lack of Architectural Strategy

27. Optimizing Processes for the Cloud: Patterns and Antipatterns

Mike Kavis

Antipattern 1: The Wild West Antipattern 2: Command and Control Avoiding Antipatterns

28. Why the Lift-and-Shift Model Is Unlikely to Succeed

Mike Silverman

IV. Security and Compliance 29. Security at Cloud Native Speed

Chris Short

Struggles Velocity Continuous Security Platform Security Speed Makes Us Safer

30. Essentials of Modern Cloud Governance

Derek Martin

Subscriptions Matter The Network Has to Come First Security Is Essential Automation Is Required

31. Know Where the Secrets Are Kept and How

Emmanuel Apau

How Do We Share Secrets Between the Infrastructure and the Applications? How Do We Audit Our Secrets? How Do We Share Secrets Among Users? Best Practices

32. Don’t SSH into Production

Fernando Duran

33. Identity and Access Management in Cloud Computing

Isuru J. Ranawaka

34. Treat Your Cloud Environment as if It Were On Premises

Iyana Garry

35. You Can’t Get Information Security Right Without Getting Identity Right

Sarah Cecchetti

36. Why Are Good AWS Security Policies So Difficult?

Stephen Kuenzli

The AWS Security Model Is Powerful but Complex How Policies Are Evaluated Cloud Deployments Change Rapidly Summary

37. Side Channels and Covert Communications in Cloud Environments

Will Deane

V. Operations and Reliability 38. When in Doubt, Test It Out

Dan Moore

39. Never Take a Single Region Dependency

Derek Martin

40. Test Your Infrastructure with Game Days

Fernando Duran

41. Improve Your Monitoring with Visualizations and Dashboards

Jason Katzer

42. REvisiting the Rs of SRE

J. Paul Reed

43. The Power of Vulnerability

Ken Broeren

44. The Basics of Service-Level Objectives

Kit Merker, Brian Singer, and Alex Nauda

What Are SLOs? SLOs: The Cloud Engineer’s Best Friend Where Do You Start?

45. Oh, No: No Logs

Laura Santamaria

46. Use Checklists to Manage Risk

Lisa Huynh

47. Everything Is a DNS Problem: How to (Im)prove

Michael Friedrich

48. What’s the Time?

Nikhil Nanivadekar

49. Monitor Your Model Dependencies!

Ori Cohen

50. There’s No Such Thing as a Development Environment

Peter McCool

51. Incident Analysis and Chaos Engineering: Complementary Practices

Ryan Frantz

Incident Analysis

Pushing Paper Technical Teaching Surfacing Surprise

Chaos Engineering Incident Analysis or Chaos Engineering Recouping our Investments A Vision for the Future

52. How Should I Organize My AWS Accounts?

Stephen Kuenzli

53. Resiliency and Scalability Are Key

Tidjani Belmansour

54. Monitor, You Will

Tidjani Belmansour

What Is Monitoring and Why Should We Care? Is Monitoring Required Only for Cloud-Based Applications? What Should We Monitor? Monitoring and Dashboarding We Should Design Our Applications for Monitoring from the Start

55. Reliable Systems Don’t Happen by Accident

Zach Thomas

The Architecture Diagram Is Also a Map of Failure Modes Asynchronous Communication Is a Friend of Cloud Reliability Exercise Adverse Conditions

56. What Is Toil, and Why Are SREs Obsessed with It?

Zachary Nickens

VI. Software Development 57. The Cloud Doesn’t Care if It Works on Your Machine

Alessandro Diaferia

58. KISS It

Chris Proto

59. Maintaining Service Levels with Feature Flags

Dawn Parzych

60. Working Upstream

Eric Sorenson

Survey the Landscape Get Internal Approval Join the Community Design First, Then Code Happy Upstreaming!

61. Do More with Less

Ivan Krnić

62. Everything Is Just Ones and Zeros

Lukas Ruebbelke

63. Be Prepared to Repeat

Ricardo Miranda

Strategies to Cope with Duplicate Messages Stateless Consumers Keeping State Conclusions

64. Your Greatest Products Are Not the Applications and Services You Produce

Ryan Bell

65. Avoid Big Rewrites

Simon Aronsson

Step 1: Be Realistic Step 2: Utilize the Strangler Pattern Step 3: Repeat

66. Lean QA: The QA Evolving in the DevOps World

Theresa Neate

Beware the Cargo Cult Waste QA Is Feedback Early Feedback Lean QA

67. Source Code Management for Software Delivery

Tiffany Jachja

Understanding Version Control What Is Git?

VII. Cloud Economics and Measuring Spend 68. FinOps: How Cloud Finance Management Can Save Your Cloud Program from Extinction

Deepak Ramchandani Vensi

What Is FinOps? How Do You Get Started with FinOps? Summary

69. How Economies of Scale Work in the Cloud

Jon Moore

70. Managing Network Transit Costs in the Cloud

Ken Corless

71. Managing the Cloud Migration Cost Spike

Manjeet Dadyala

72. Damn It, Jim! I’m a Cloud Engineer, Not an Accountant!

Michael Winslow

73. Effectively Monitoring Cloud Services Requires Planning

Scott Pantall

VIII. Automation 74. Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Effective Infrastructure as Code

Adarsh Shah

Key Principles Principles and Practices

75. Red, Green, Refactor for Infrastructure

Annie Hedgpeth

76. Automate or Not-o-Mate?

Judy Johnson

77. Beyond the Portal: Manage Your Cloud with the CLI

Marcello Marrocos

78. Treat Your Infrastructure like Software

Zachary Nickens

IX. Data 79. So You Want to Migrate Oracle Database into AWS Cloud?

Asha Kalburgi

Migration of Database Helpful Tools

80. DataOps: DevOps for Data Management

Banjo Obayomi

Reproducible Data Analytics as Code Data as a Platform

81. Data Gravity: The Importance of Data Management in the Cloud

Geoff Hughes

Data Availability Disaster Recovery Data Retention Data Gravity

X. Networking 82. Even in the Cloud, the Network Is the Foundation

David Murray

83. Networking First

Derek Martin

84. Handling Network Failures in the Cloud

Shayon Mukherjee

XI. Organizational Culture 85. Silos by Any Other Name

Brittany Woods

86. Focus on Your Team, Not on the Cost

Guillaume Blaquiere

87. Cloud Engineering Is About Culture, Not Containers

Holly Cummins

88. The Importance of Keeping Working Systems Working

Jan Urbański

89. Effectively Navigating Organizational Politics

Joshua Zimmerman

Delegation Committees Soft Decisions

90. The Cloud Is Not About the Cloud

Ken Corless

91. The Cloud Is Bigger than IT: Enterprise-Wide Training Strategies

Mike Kavis

92. Systems Thinking and the Support Pager

Theresa Neate

There Are Always Consequences Systems Thinking in Teams Systems Thinking in Application Support It All Dovetails

93. Curating a DevOps Culture and Experience

Tiffany Jachja

Define Your Target Outcomes Safe Environments Architect Your Technology

XII. Personal and Professional Development 94. Read the Documentation—Then Reread It

Jennine Townsend

95. Stay Curious

Laziz Turakulov

96. Empathy as Code

Nirmal Mehta

Empathy as Code A Sampling of Decision-Making Techniques

97. From Zero to Cloud Engineer in Less Than a Year

Rachel Sweeney

Contributors

Adarsh Shah Alessandro Diaferia Alex Nauda Annie Hedgpeth Asha Kalburgi Banjo Obayomi Brendan O’Leary Brian Singer Brittany Woods Chris Hickman Chris Proto Chris Short Dan Moore Dave Stanke David Murray Dawn Parzych Deepak Ramchandani Vensi Delali Dzirasa Derek Martin Duncan Mackenzie Emily Freeman Emmanuel Apau Eric Sorenson Fernando Duran Geoff Hughes Guillaume Blaquiere Haishi Bai Holly Cummins Isuru J. Ranawaka Ivan Krnić Iyana Garry J. Paul Reed Jake Echanove Jan Urbański Jason Katzer Jennine Townsend Jon Moore Jonathan Buck Joshua Zimmerman Judy Johnson Kasun Indrasiri Katie McLaughlin Ken Broeren Ken Corless Kendall Miller Kim Schlesinger Kit Merker Laura Santamaria Laziz Turakulov Lee Atchison Lisa Huynh Lukas Ruebbelke Manasés Jesús Galindo Bello Manjeet Dadyala Marcello Marrocos Marko Sluga Mattias Geniar Michael Friedrich Michael Winslow Michelle Brenner Mike Kavis Mike Silverman Nathen Harvey Nikhil Nanivadekar Nirmal Mehta Noah Abrahams Ori Cohen Peter McCool Rachel Sweeney Reza Salari Ricardo Miranda Rustem Feyzkhanov Ryan Bell Ryan Frantz Sarah Cecchetti Scott Pantall Shayon Mukherjee Simon Aronsson Stephen Kuenzli Theresa Neate Tidjani Belmansour Tiffany Jachja Wietse Venema Will Deane Zach Thomas Zachary Nickens

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