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Do you enjoy watching sports? Wear your favorite team or player\u2019s jersey? Are you a fan who has shopped at Fanatics on the Cloud? \nToday, we\u2019re talking to Johnny Sheeley, director of Cloud engineering at Fanatics, which is a sports eCommerce business that manufactures and sells sports apparel. Fanatics runs Cloud engineering to provide a robust and reliable set of services by building and deploying applications on top of the Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) platform.\nSome of the highlights of the show include:\n\nIf you compete with Amazon, be ready for it to come after you; some companies avoid its Cloud perspective or go multi-Cloud (paranoia-based movement)\nFocus on your ability to make your business function smoothly\nTransition, migration, and abstraction may be painful, but should not stop work; paying for Cloud-agnostic technology may not be worth it\nChallenges of governing use of Cloud resources to prevent mistakes/problems related to Fanatics\u2019 security and budget\nData collected focuses on what\u2019s trending up or down to select an instance type that calculates costs; remain flexible and be aware of what you pay\nNatural instinct is to blame people; mistakes are made, especially when a human factor is introduced to an automated system\nCreating a mindset that focuses on feature and detail-oriented is challenging\nCottage industry of code bases running in Big Data and other expensive realms\nAs a product continues to evolve and grow, governance comes along for the ride and AWS bills are streamlined\nWill serverless, Lambda, and RDS change how Amazon charges in the future?\nState of scale of AWS and developing a more palatable method for releases because people can\u2019t keep up with them and stop paying attention\nTwo-Pizza Team: Amazon\u2019s management philosophy that any team that works on a service should be able to be fed with two pizzas \nSuch small teams work quickly and have the freedom to fail, but Amazon has a reliability for the longevity of its different services\n\nLinks:\n\nJohnny Sheeley's Email\nJohnny Sheeley on Twitter\nRands Leadership Slack\nHangops.slack.com\nFanatics\nKubernetes\nAzure\nLambda\nRDS\nGetafix: How Facebook Tools Learn to Fix Bugs Automatically\nAccidentally Quadratic Blog\nre:Invent\nJeff Barr\u2019s AWS News Blog\nAmazon SimpleDB\nLots of Amazon's projects have failed...and that's ok, says Amazon's Andy Jassy\nDigital Ocean