infrastructure and the cloud

infrastructure-and-the-cloud.md

• components of a typical web application
• infrastructure:
  • tooling pattern to maintain an infrastructure
  • good block diagram that covers most components
• what is devops?
• what is cloud?
• benefits of being on the cloud:
  • time to market
  • elasticity
  • reduced costs
  • managed / automated
  • mobility
  • allows average skill set
• different strategies used by companies to market cloud offerings
  • google, abstracts out everything till the application
  • heroku abstracts out everything till the instance
  • aws, exposes all components for you to control
• walkthrough of aws:
  • start off with the free tier, you just need a credit card
  • aws documentation
• walkthrough of heroku:
  • small rails app
  • heroku documentation