Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea & Emergencies • Nicki Watt • GOTO 2019

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2019. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo http://gotochgo.com Nicki Watt - CTO of OpenCredo, Leading Delivery of Large-scale, Cloud Native Projects ABSTRACT Many businesses want to embrace modern business practices by delivering projects quickly and scaling faster. For this, adopting a Cloud Native mindset and architecture makes sense but is not a simple magic carpet ride. In this talk, Nicki Watt from OpenCredo will share the realities of making that journey for a number of clients. Far from being a smooth journey to the promised land, you will learn about the numerous detours, bumps and challenges encountered along the way. Microservices, Kubernetes, Success, but also Bandages and Crutches; This talk is for you if you want to gain some pragmatic insight into what is entailed with such endeavors. [...] TIMECODES 0:00 Introduction 0:32 Feeling pain Learning from failures 3:42 Overview - The Dream 6:05 "Going Cloud-Native" is an approach to build and run applications capable of exploiting and taking advantage of modern, scalable cloud like delivery techniques and tools in order to meet business objectives! 8:26 Tackling Too Much Too Quickly (Sunburn) 15:43 Relying on a Surface Level Understanding (Caught In Deep Water) 16:32 Distributed Systems are hard. The devil is in the detail And the detail matters 22:19 Other War Stories ... DRY Dependency Hell • The Singularity Fallacy 36:19 Ignoring Security (Living Dangerously) 47:27 Summary & Principles for Success 48:08 Don't take on too much too quickly • Acquire enough expertise to journey safely • Choose your Tools wisely • Engage don't enrage Security . Anticipate, Plan and Actively Test for Failure Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotochgo.com/2019/sessions/715 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/... Brendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/3wrtwlp John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5 Kasun Indrasiri & Sriskandarajah Suhothayan • Design Patterns for Cloud Native Applications • https://amzn.to/3yCFxWE Michael Hausenblas & Stefan Schimanski • Programming Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3qTvKch Alexander Raul • Cloud Native with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3yw9ckc Nigel Poulton • The Kubernetes Book • https://amzn.to/3dW8ViU Marko Luksa • Kubernetes in Action • https://amzn.to/3dXk2Im https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com   / gotocon     / goto-     / goto_con     / gotoconferences   #CloudNative #Microservices #NickiWatt #Containers CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:    / @goto-   Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConf...