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Published inAug 2018

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ISBN-139781787280540

Edition1st Edition

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Authors (4):

Tom Laszewski

Kamal Arora

Erik Farr

Piyum Zonooz

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In this chapter, we discussed the inherent weaknesses of how legacy organizations devote their staff to produce systems. These weaknesses have become increasingly apparent as cloud technology has become a huge enabler to businesses. We then introduced a new model for developing, deploying, and maintaining systems—CND teams.

CND teams are at the heart of building mature cloud native architectures, since they have the agility, freedom, and focus to own their systems all up. They are not strained by CABs or oversight, as long as they maintain their APIs and SLAs advertised to other systems and teams.

We discussed the use of Cloud-Managed Service Providers, and how a Cloud MSP can be a stepping stone to greater cloud maturity. Furthermore, central to cloud native operations are building with IaC. We introduced examples of how to build, test, deploy, and maintain systems with IaC. Finally, we concluded with cloud native tools popular in the marketplace today to enable cloud native operations...

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Tom Laszewski

Tom Laszewski is a leader and cloud technologist who has helped ISVs, SIs, start-ups, and mid-market, and global customers modernization IT systems and develop innovative software solutions. He currently leads a team of Enterprise Technologists responsible for the business and IT transformation strategy with key AWS customers pursuing cloud modernization initiatives and digital transformation efforts utilizing cloud native architecture. He enjoys traveling the world with his teenage sons Slade and Logan.
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Kamal Arora

Kamal Arora is an inventor, author, and technology leader with more than 15 years of IT experience. He currently works at Amazon Web Services and leads a diverse team of highly experienced solutions architects who enable global consulting partners and enterprise customers on their journey to cloud. Kamal has also led the creation of biggest global technical partnerships, set his team's vision and execution model, and incubated multiple new strategic initiatives. He's passionate about the latest innovations in the cloud and the AI/ML space, and their impact on our society and daily-life.
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Erik Farr

Erik Farr is a technology leader with over 18 years in the IT industry. He has been on the leading edge of cloud technology and enterprise architecture, working with some of the largest companies and system integrators in the world. In his current role at Amazon Web Services, he leads a team of experienced solution architects to help global system integrator partners design enterprise scale cloud native architectures. Before AWS, he has experience with Capgemini and The Walt Disney Company, always working to create highly valuable outcomes for customers.
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Piyum Zonooz

Piyum Zonooz is a Global Partner Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he works with companies across all industries to help drive cloud adoption and re-architect products to cloud native. He's led projects in TCO analysis, infrastructure design, DevOps adoption, and complete business transformation. Prior to AWS, Piyum was a Lead Architect as part of the Accenture Cloud Practice where he led large-scale cloud adoption projects. Piyum holds a BSc and MSc. degree in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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