The cloud is all about breaking down patterns that have solidified in traditional enterprises. Specialization has reinforced these practices. A networking expert in a siloed organization often does not have to care about how their design affects the paying customer. This occurs because that professional is seeing a blinkered view of their clients.
As we create or move workloads to the cloud, we have the opportunity to demolish these standalone knowledge depots. Desilofication is the process of breaking down barriers to knowledge caused by separate organizations not cooperating or being aware of the other's existence.
Our product mindset encourages us to seek out and understand the business outcomes of our users. Understanding that our instances must have an IP address doesn't really tell us anything about business value. Knowing that all credit card transactions need to be approved, or denied, in under three seconds provides us with a lot more context.
The difference...