# Cloud vs Data Center - Cloud is not synonymous with success - Hidden costs - Balance and scale - Provisioning for the DC 1. VMware 2. KVM

# Load Balancing - At the server level - At the data link layer - At the network (routing) layer - LB Technology - Configuring Nginx - Configuring HAProxy - Configuring AWS Elastic LB

# Autoscaling - Pools (VMware Load Balancing -- RoundRobin or Least Connections) - Through the cloud (AWS Example) - Through the DC (VMware Example) (vRealize + NSX) - Manually intervening (Monitoring, scripting, service accounts)

# Load Testing - Point of load testing - Locust (Python Framework) - BlazeMeter (subscription) - Siege (Linux package)

# Infrastructure as Code - Terraform - Ansible - CloudFormation