infrastructure and the cloud

infrastructure-and-the-cloud

- components of a typical web application
- infrastructure:
	- tooling pattern to maintain an infrastructure: http://ranjib.posterous.com/infrastructure-tooling-patterns
	- good block diagram that covers most components: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/gettingstarted/latest/awsgsg-intro/intro.html?r=3354
- what is devops?
- what is cloud?
- benefits of being on the cloud:
	- time to market
	- elasticity
	- reduced costs
	- managed / automated
	- mobility
	- allows average skill set
- different strategies used by companies to market cloud offerings
	- google, abstracts out everything till the application
	- heroku abstracts out everything till the instance
	- aws, exposes all components for you to control 
- walkthrough of aws:
	- start off with the free tier: 
	- aws documentation: http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/gettingstarted/
- walkthrough of heroku:
	- small rails app: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
	- heroku documentation: http://www.heroku.com/how