This Old App - A Guide to Renovating Apps for the Cloud

Explore strategies for migrating legacy applications to the cloud in this 30-minute AppSecUSA 2017 conference talk. Learn about various migration patterns, from microservices decomposition to lift-and-shift approaches, and understand their benefits and pitfalls. Discover how to assess which apps are suitable for refactoring and which might require complete rewrites. Consider factors such as public vs. private cloud, IaaS vs. PaaS options, and potential SaaS alternatives. Examine security implications, design conflicts, and necessary organizational capabilities for successful cloud migration. Gain insights into making informed security and overall decisions when planning your app's transition to the cloud, using analogies like renovating an old house to illustrate key concepts.

Intro
Why cloud
Pizza analogy
Hybrids
Change in mindset
Architecture patterns
Migration patterns
Monolith
Forklift
Break it till you make it
The strangulation pattern
The cloud on a stick
Containerization