The Cloud and DevOps Revolution

The technological industry is constantly changing. Although the internet was born only a quarter of a century ago, it has already transformed the way that we live. Every day, over a billion people visit Facebook; every minute, approximately 300 hours of video footage are uploaded on YouTube; and every second, Google processes approximately 40,000 search queries. Being able to handle such a staggering scale isn't easy. However, this book will provide you with a practical guide for deployment philosophy, tooling, or using the best practices of the companies. Through the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will be able to build the key elements required to efficiently manage and scale your infrastructure, your engineering processes, and your applications, with minimal cost and effort. This first chapter will explain the new paradigms of the following topics:

• Thinking in terms of the cloud, and not infrastructure
• Adopting a DevOps culture
• Deploying in AWS