Cloud Engineering: Developers and Infrastructure Teams Collaborating for Cloud-Native Architectures

Explore the concept of "Cloud Engineering" in this comprehensive conference talk that delves into the evolving relationship between developers and infrastructure teams in the modern cloud-native landscape. Learn how the cloud has transformed from a cost center to a central component of business innovation, and discover the challenges practitioners face in adapting to this new paradigm. Examine the best practices for collaboration between developers and infrastructure teams, including embracing cloud-native architectures, implementing infrastructure as code, and applying engineering practices to infrastructure deployments. Gain insights into how organizations can leverage cloud engineering to ship faster with confidence, tame complexity, and create a competitive advantage. Dive into topics such as Kubernetes, serverless computing, service mesh, and the importance of security in cloud environments. Understand the historical context of cloud engineering, drawing parallels with past technological shifts in programming languages and multicore processing. Explore the building blocks of cloud engineering, the challenges teams face, and the potential for achieving a "nirvana" state of seamless collaboration and efficient cloud-native development.

Introduction
Outline
How did we get here
What is the tipping point
Todays world is complicated
Things are changing
Looking back for inspiration
Programming languages
Multicore
Asynchronous Programming
Back to the Future
All Software is Cloud Software
Infrastructure isnt you know
Infrastructure enables that
What is a cloud builder
This is not a new idea
Drawing inspiration from the past
What is cloud engineering
Cloud broke the inner loop
Cloud engineering
Competitive time to market
Leveraging strengths
Developers and infrastructure experts
Cloud engineering teams are empowered
Putting cloud engineering into practice
Infrastructure is a tax
Leaders in cloud engineering
Cloud as a competitive advantage
Cloud as a superpower
Mindset change
Challenges
Building Blocks
Google Cloud
The complexity is a good thing
Looking to the past
YAML
Infrastructure is software
How do you test your infrastructure
Security is not an afterthought
Teams can do all these things
Engineering practices
The nirvana
Summary
TLDR
Breaking Down the Wall
Container vs Serverless
Devops mentality
First step to CICD
Ephemeral environments