Build Best Practices and the Right Foundation for your First Production Workload

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Get the correct people and roles
- small company one person w/ many hats
- need cloud skills - need to be leader
- need to be liasion between cloud vendor and business

Train these people
- there are classes offered by AWS - uhm okay
- holy grails - 5 AWS professional
- AWS Qwiklabs, youtube, acloudguru / udemy - even AWS people use these
- AWS Lunch & Learns -> find out about these
- or find these people through AWS partners

Culture
- You build it, you run it
- Good intentions are not enough
- Move decision making to the edges -> hence you build it you run it - decision means responsibilities

Foundational Processes & Mechanisms
- set up small, agile teams - 2 pizzas team rule
- work out KPI
- systematic metric based magamenent - use Cloudwatch for example - everything can be monitored in AWS.
  use CludTrail
- bring dev and ops together
- revisit design

Processes & Culture Example
- Netflix - freedom of choice, automate everything
- other smaller examples Suncorp - leverage cloud to drive culture change

Design
- Design for Failure -> netflix with its simian army
- Component de-couple
- managed services
- scale & elasticity
- set up CI/CD pipeline - blue green deployment, a/b testing and all the jazz
  - blue / green deployment - basically mean you have a blue environment and a green env 
  - you deploy to a blue env first - do smoke test there - if everything ok, then load balancer points to this blue env, if a rollback is needed, load balancer is changed to point back to the green. 

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