The tech industry is constantly changing. The internet was born only a quarter of a century ago but has already transformed the way we live. Every day, over a billion people visit Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102329188394581); every hour, approximately 18,000 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube (https://merchdope.com/youtube-stats/); and every second, Google processes approximately 40,000 search queries (http://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics). Being able to handle such a staggering scale of activity isn't easy. Thanks to this book, you will have a practical guide to adopting similar philosophies, tooling, and best practices as those applied by the aforementioned companies. Through the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will be able to build the key principles to manage and scale your infrastructure, your engineering processes, and your applications efficiently with minimal cost and effort.
This first chapter will explain in detail the new paradigms of:
- Thinking in terms of the cloud and not infrastructure
- Adopting a DevOps culture
- Deploying in AWS following DevOps best practices