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Deploying a Multi-Cloud Strategy

Published: Oct. 21, 2020, noon

In this episode we are jumping into the cloud, specifically discussing how businesses can deploy a multi-cloud strategy to diversify services, mitigate risk, and enable innovation. Andrew and Fahad discuss the ins and outs of a multi-cloud distributed architecture and why it's essential for every technology business.

Episode Highlights

  • Defining multi-cloud architecture
  • Prominent multi-cloud providers: 
  • Examples of companies using an effective multi-cloud strategy
    • Zoom, Apple, Dropbox, Netflix
  • Supporting a multi-cloud strategy without the resources of a large enterprise company 
  • Approaching multi-cloud as a large enterprise, mid-size company, or a start-up
  • Incorporating distributed architecture like data meshes and data lakes into the multi-cloud strategy
  • Managing these services through Microservices
  • How the major platforms differentiate themselves from one another
  • The future for data lakes and Snowflake, and multi-cloud platforms in general
    • Watch out for Oracle to become a legitimate competitor in the cloud platform space
    • People will start investing in custom software to hit their digital initiatives
  • The best advice for developers when it comes to this space is to learn the fundamentals of cloud development: 
    • open-source protocols, Docker, Elastic Search, Redis open-source databases, Terraform, and Puppet

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