Talk: A Lean Cloud Migration
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Charles Kubicek
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Title:
A Lean Cloud Migration
Short synopsis:
How do you migrate your key first product to the cloud without getting caught up in traditional infrastructure IT scheduling plans, lift-and-shift temptation, hidden dependencies, microservice coupling and cloud vendor pressure to adopt their new tech? This session will tell the story of our lean cloud migration using an experimental-driven approach with shared business and user-driven goals and principles to guide us through the challenges.
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There are many challenges when an organization moves its first microservices-based product from an on-premise data centre to the cloud, in particular, the many unknowns that manifest as blockers as the migration unfolds. Along with traditional infrastructure IT scheduling plans, lift-and-shift temptation, hidden dependencies, microservice coupling and cloud vendor pressure to adopt their new tech, it can be daunting. This is where the ideas of lean and it’s experimental approach can be used to uncover unknowns early in the process to guide decision making and lead to a migration with minimal surprises and effective outcomes. This session tells the story of our lean cloud migration, including all the ups-and-downs along the way. The story begins with how teams and managers became aligned by agreeing on key principles and goals, then how we moved from following a date-by-date, start-to-end project plan into an iterative, experiment-driven approach. The story then discusses how experimentation was applied to infrastructure work, how the many issues that came up were dealt with, and how user traffic was ramped up to 100% traffic on the cloud. A rough talk structure will be: - Introduction, challenges and how a traditional IT infrastructure approach is no longer appropriate for cloud computing - Principles and goals based on risks and lessons learnt from past migrations, and the establishment of goals to drive the lean process - Infrastructure for experimentation and the value of performance tests - The path to 100% traffic - Lessons learnt The key takeaways will be: - Lean can be used as a way to drive non-lift-and-shift migrations - Cross-functional teams are a huge cost and time saver - Comparisons between cloud and on-premise need to be at a product level as opposed to a technical, component level - Failures in cloud-based systems must be embraced as learning opportunities - Automated infrastructure is a key requirement for learning and experimenting The talk will focus primarily on the lean approach, from the perspective of the Technical Product Owner. While it will mention some technical and architectural aspects of the system, is meant to be accessible to non-technical people who are familiar with Web-based products.
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