In this episode we are jumping into the cloud, specifically discussing how businesses can deploy a multi-cloud strategy to diversify services, mitigate risk, and enable innovation. Andrew and Fahad discuss the ins and outs of a multi-cloud distributed architecture and why it's essential for every technology business.

Episode Highlights

• Defining multi-cloud architecture
• Prominent multi-cloud providers: 
  • IBM
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Azure
  • Oracle
• Examples of companies using an effective multi-cloud strategy
  • Zoom, Apple, Dropbox, Netflix
• Supporting a multi-cloud strategy without the resources of a large enterprise company 
• Approaching multi-cloud as a large enterprise, mid-size company, or a start-up
• Incorporating distributed architecture like data meshes and data lakes into the multi-cloud strategy
• Managing these services through Microservices
• How the major platforms differentiate themselves from one another
• The future for data lakes and Snowflake, and multi-cloud platforms in general
  • Watch out for Oracle to become a legitimate competitor in the cloud platform space
  • People will start investing in custom software to hit their digital initiatives
• The best advice for developers when it comes to this space is to learn the fundamentals of cloud development: 
  • open-source protocols, Docker, Elastic Search, Redis open-source databases, Terraform, and Puppet

Resources/Tools Mentioned

• Terraform 
• Puppet
• Docker
• Snowflake
• Twilio