Erik Ralston
Co-Founder at Fuse Accelerator
5 KINDS of CLOUD DEV
Erik Ralston
Chief Architect @
Co-Founder @
What is
THE CLOUD?
Someone Else's Computer
Global
Pay-as-You-Go Infrastructure & Services
Virtual Machines (IaaS) Containers
Applications (PaaS) Microservices
Serverless
Servers
Networking
(Ask an IT Pro)
Data Center
Virtual Machines
AKA Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Physical
Servers
Virtual Machines
Networking
(Ask an IT Pro)
Advantages
- Full OS Access
- Full Control Over Config
- Full Control Over Scale
- Full Control Over Network
- Devs are probably using their machines
Disadvantages
- Admin Wizards ONLY!
- Wide gap between dev, test, and prod
- Cats not cattle?
- GOOD LUCK!
Amazon EC2
(Elastic Cloud)
Virtual Machines
Containers
Physical
Servers
Container
Smart
Load Balancer
VM
Advantages
- Full OS Access
- Full Control Over Config
- Abstract Scale
- Automatic Dev Sandbox
Disadvantages
- You're the OS Admin!
Amazon EC2 Container Service
ECS
Containers
Applications
AKA Platform-as-a-Service
Web App
Smart
Load Balancer
Advantages
- Abstracts Almost Everything
- Scale Configuration
- Easy DX for Most Processes
- Easy Architecture
Disadvantages
- Extremely Limited OS Access
- Can turn into too many black boxes
- DX Can Suck If You Have Many Tools
Elastic Beanstalk
App Service (Web Apps, Logic Apps)
Microservices
AKA PaaS on Steroids
Microservices
(At the Class Level)
Advantages
- Features Individually Scale in Your App
- Efficient for Long Thinking Apps
- Solves a lot of team problems in building apps
Disadvantages
- No OS, Limited App
- Architecture is complicated (Stateful, Stateless, lots of boxes)
- DX is based on custom tools (MS is pretty easy)
AWS Lambda
Service Fabric
Serverless
AKA PaaS on LSD
Endpoint
Advantages
- INFINITE Scale
- Cheapest Compute
- Transient Transactions
- Easy API
- Easiest DX (Just make some classes and deploy)
Disadvantages
- Hard to limit spending
- Must throttle with architecture
- Security must be baked into platform
- DX Does Require Tools
AWS Lambda
Azure Functions
Virtual Machines (IaaS) Containers
Applications (PaaS) Microservices
Serverless
Thank
You
5 Kinds of Cloud Development
By Erik Ralston
5 Kinds of Cloud Development
A 100-level talk on the various models of Cloud Dev: Virtual Machines, Containers, Web Apps, Microservices, and Serverless
