Many of us in technology regularly experiment with new tools and technology. We often do this to adopt new skills when we need to solve a problem or we have inherited some code that needs enhancement. The cloud is in many ways no different than things we've done before, but the way we do them, or maybe the way the cloud handles some things, means that we need to change how we view a task or perform our jobs.

Migrating to the cloud is something that many of us have had to tackle at some point. I've seen a good amount of lift-and-shift, including many companies who just mandated moves to the cloud without much planning. As mentioned in this article, that was cloud migration 1.0. Really, I think this was something that's been going on for years, and continues to occur today. Lots of management are seduced by the promises of the cloud to make their organization's IT systems better, so they move everything without thinking.

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