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If you create, manage, operate, or configure systems running in the cloud, you are a cloud engineer - even if you work as a system administrator, software developer, data scientists, or site reliability engineer. With this book, professionals from around the world provide valuable insight into today's cloud engineering role.
These concise articles explore the entire cloud computing experience, including fundamentals, architecture and migration. You will delve into security compliance, operations and reliability, and software development. And examine networking, organizational culture, and more. You are sure to find 1,2, or 97 things that inspire you to dig deeper and expand your own career.
Ideas about cloud computing have been around since at least the 1960s. Our modern understanding of the cloud can be traced back to about 2006, when Amazon first launched Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The rise and adoption of cloud technologies has changed the shape of our industry and our global society. The cloud has made getting started less expensive and growing to global scale feasible, and is helping turn every organization into a technology organization—or at least an organization that uses technology as a strategic enabler of delivering value.
A cloud engineer is, broadly defined, someone who creates, manages, operates, or configures systems running in the cloud. This could be a system administrator responsible for building base images, a software developer responsible for writing applications, a data scientist building machine learning models, a site reliability engineer responding to pages when things go awry, and more. In some organizations, all of those functions are handled by one single human; in others, hundreds of people may be in each one of those roles.