Reviewing Chapter 1, Introducing ... the Cloud
We started by introducing the cloud, that mythical creature that is always in the sky, flying about, and destroying people and organizations that are not ready for it. Oh, sorry, we’re thinking of dragons there. Let’s try again.
We started by introducing the cloud, that wonderful elusive concept, and – even worse – the concept that seems easy to understand but when put into practice or adopted, still seems to cause a lot of trouble for people and organizations trying to conquer it. Furthermore, we defined the target audience for this book – namely, architects, and specifically, cloud architects. While we tried to make the information available to all, of course, cloud architects and engineers are the ones to benefit from the cloud adoption and will lead cloud adoption. If you are working for one of the lucky organizations where the business and product and sales teams are also onboard for cloud adoption...