Screaming in the Cloud

Episode 36: I'm Not Here to Correct Your English, Just Cloud Bills

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Do you enjoy watching sports? Wear your favorite team or player’s jersey? Are you a fan who has shopped at Fanatics on the Cloud?

Today, we’re talking to Johnny Sheeley, director of Cloud engineering at Fanatics, which is a sports eCommerce business that manufactures and sells sports apparel. Fanatics runs Cloud engineering to provide a robust and reliable set of services by building and deploying applications on top of the Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) platform.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

  • If you compete with Amazon, be ready for it to come after you; some companies avoid its Cloud perspective or go multi-Cloud (paranoia-based movement)
  • Focus on your ability to make your business function smoothly
  • Transition, migration, and abstraction may be painful, but should not stop work; paying for Cloud-agnostic technology may not be worth it
  • Challenges of governing use of Cloud resources to prevent mistakes/problems related to Fanatics’ security and budget
  • Data collected focuses on what’s trending up or down to select an instance type that calculates costs; remain flexible and be aware of what you pay
  • Natural instinct is to blame people; mistakes are made, especially when a human factor is introduced to an automated system
  • Creating a mindset that focuses on feature and detail-oriented is challenging
  • Cottage industry of code bases running in Big Data and other expensive realms
  • As a product continues to evolve and grow, governance comes along for the ride and AWS bills are streamlined
  • Will serverless, Lambda, and RDS change how Amazon charges in the future?
  • State of scale of AWS and developing a more palatable method for releases because people can’t keep up with them and stop paying attention
  • Two-Pizza Team: Amazon’s management philosophy that any team that works on a service should be able to be fed with two pizzas
  • Such small teams work quickly and have the freedom to fail, but Amazon has a reliability for the longevity of its different services

    • Links:

    • Johnny Sheeley's Email
    • Johnny Sheeley on Twitter
    • Rands Leadership Slack
    • Hangops.slack.com
    • Fanatics
    • Kubernetes
    • Azure
    • Lambda
    • RDS
    • Getafix: How Facebook Tools Learn to Fix Bugs Automatically
    • Accidentally Quadratic Blog
    • re:Invent
    • Jeff Barr’s AWS News Blog
    • Amazon SimpleDB
    • Lots of Amazon's projects have failed...and that's ok, says Amazon's Andy Jassy
    • Digital Ocean
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