Cloud Architecture: Design Decisions

Strong architecture begins with smart design decisions. Learn how to define and map requirements for a solid cloud-based architecture.

Introduction

• Making decisions around cloud architecture design
• What you should know

1. Beyond Basic Architecture

• Taking your architecture to the next level
• Advanced architecture example one: HR systems
• Advanced architecture example two: Edge computing
• Advanced architecture example three: Containers and Kubernetes
• Advanced architecture example four: Serverless computing
• Necessary skills, tools, and processes

2. Define a Business Case

• Build a business case
• Soft costs and benefits
• Hard costs and benefits
• Economies of optimization
• Economies of complexity

3. Define the Requirement Patterns

• What storage is needed?
• What compute is needed?
• What data and databases are needed?
• What security is needed?
• What governance is needed?
• What CloudOps processes and technology are needed?
• Other services to consider

4. Cloud Architecture Advanced Concepts

• Map requirements to storage
• Map requirements to compute
• Map requirements to databases
• Map to security and governance
• Map to cloud operations (CloudOps)
• Making sense of it all

5. Advanced Topics

• Performance management
• Proactive security
• Serverless
• Containers and container orchestration
• IoT and edge computing
• AI and ML
• Multi-cloud
• Low-code and no-code
• Emerging technology to pay attention to

Conclusion

• Next steps