benefits of cloud computing - a technical perspective on software platform strategy
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Benefits of Cloud Computing - A Technical Perspective On Software Platform Strategy by Luke Gordon
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Positioning your software platform strategy for success has been discussed over the past few blog posts along with the Application Continuum & Domain Driven Design.
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Our final topic will cover an area which has grown significantly over the past few decades and plays a critical piece in any software platform’s success: infrastructure.
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Cloud Infrastructure
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Like Domain Driven Design and knowing where to start on the application continuum, solidifying your cloud infrastructure early on in your approach positions you for success later on.
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Infrastructure covers a broad range of technologies and tools, so to help narrow the scope for this post we’ll focus specifically on cloud providers.
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At Dialexa we’ve worked with the 3 major providers on multiple client projects: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), & Microsoft Azure.
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With the emergence of “the cloud”, the landscape of software development has shifted to empower small businesses with luxuries previously unaffordable. With instant access to a plethora of tools and services, a small development team’s reach can now extend to millions of users and revenue.
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However, picking the right cloud provider is not a simple task, as the advantages of cloud computing greatly depend on your business needs and team’s expertise.
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Top Cloud Infrastructure Providers
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Amazon’s cloud offering has been a key role in it’s insane growth over the past decade. They’ve grown by over $400 billion dollars in 10 years & continue to be the provider to beat in regards of service offerings. Services like Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, and their flagship service S3 grant your platform power once unimaginable.
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Also the introduction of AWS Lambda ignited discussions and attention to serverless architectures which allows solutions to scale to even greater heights. For teams who want a provider with an extensive number of service offerings and a wealth of experience in some of the world’s largest scaling businesses, AWS may enable your platform to disrupt the next market.
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While AWS does win in their number of service offerings, sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. The number of services in AWS can be overwhelming at times and their pricing model can be difficult to optimize for your platform.
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Doing a quick google search on “optimize cost in aws” reveals how many articles cover this topic and even the number of companies built solely to help manage it.
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Google’s Cloud Platform currently provides fewer services, but wins in some other important areas such as pricing & environment configuration. Anyone who’s worked with AWS for an extensive amount of time knows all too well how the provider’s flexibility can unfortunately make cloud management a hassle.
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Google’s Cloud Platform takes the opposite approach, favoring convention over configuration. For teams lacking a dedicated devops engineer or who want to focus on non-infrastructure related tasks, this option may position your platform for success.
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Finally, if your platform software heavily relies on Microsoft, fear not! Microsoft Azure is relatively young in the cloud industry, but its focus & growth has accelerated over the past year to put it in discussion as a key provider in today’s landscape. Most key services offered by Google Cloud Platform & AWS are either available or on the immediate road map.
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Furthermore Microsoft-based platform solutions will benefit from key services Azure offers which are hard to find in the other 2 providers. Finally, Microsoft’s focus on Azure for 2017 looks to advance Azure even further into the competition while including emerging markets such as artificial intelligence (AI).
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If you’ve invested a great deal into Microsoft-related technologies, Microsoft Azure’s offerings may provide your team with the all the power it needs to dominate the next market.
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Whether you decide to start off using AWS, Google’s Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure, keep in mind the technology platform you start off with does not have to be a permanent solution. Just as we saw with the application continuum and defining domains, your solution will evolve over time.
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Keeping this thought at the forefront of your mind enables you to make better strategic decisions earlier on in your platform. Eventually you may even use a combination of these platforms to solve different business needs.
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From the Application Continuum to Domain Driven Design to your solution’s infrastructure, building a successful platform is no small undertaking and rarely follows a cookie-cutter approach.
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However, experience & lessons learned by experts as well as best practices can help smoothen your platform’s course to a successful outcome.
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