In recent years, we've been hearing a lot about the cloud, but without real meaning. It was just a buzzword, and everybody was rushing to get some Amazon EC2 instances and put some services on it, just to spread the word—It's in the cloud; I put it in the cloud; we're in the cloud.
Embracing the cloud is much more than deploying something on it. Behind the word cloud, there's an entire world that isn't about a new technology or innovation or migration (even worse, transformation); it's about a revolution.
It's a revolution in terms of infrastructure, and development, deployment. Revolution in terms of teams.
The key point for the infrastructure is automation. Everything needs to be automated—provisioning servers, disk space, memory, networks, and resources—everything.
The key point for development...