{"id":234,"date":"2022-04-12T22:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/?p=234"},"modified":"2024-01-01T12:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T02:26:49","slug":"cloud-infrastructure-success-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/cloud-infrastructure-success-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud infrastructure success is a fine balance of budget and service quality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The visual summary below is based on a post by Will Larson, who started the SRE function at Uber. His post elaborates on a <a href=\"https:\/\/lethain.com\/trunk-and-branches\/\">&#8220;trunks and branches&#8221; model for developing infrastructure-facing teams<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also covered an interesting perspective on the balancing act of budget and service quality. I will explain the visual summary underneath it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cloud-infra-success-factors-1024x408.png\" alt=\"Successful cloud investments are dependent on service quality and level of budget - both of which are susceptible to problems that can bust them\" class=\"wp-image-481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cloud-infra-success-factors-1024x408.png 1024w, https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cloud-infra-success-factors-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cloud-infra-success-factors-768x306.png 768w, https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cloud-infra-success-factors.png 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-spacer stk-block-spacer stk--no-padding stk-block stk-5496946\" data-block-id=\"5496946\"><style>.stk-5496946{height:24px !important}<\/style><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-22b43686 gb-headline-text\" id=\"an-explanation-of-the-above-visual-summary\">An explanation of the above visual summary <\/h2>\n\n\n<ul style=\"font-size:clamp(15.747px, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.878), 24px);\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Long-term cloud infrastructure success depends on balancing both elements of high <strong>Service Quality <\/strong><em>and<\/em> a reasonable <strong>Investment Budget<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Service Quality can get torpedoed by morale busters like non-stop grunt work, not enough engineers,<\/strong> etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Investment budget can get torpedoed<\/strong> by continuously high cloud costs and an excess of branch teams working on problems that aren&#8217;t solving immediate problems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The key is to always keep an eye on these &#8220;busters&#8221; that can torpedo your long-term return on cloud investment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visual summary below is based on a post by Will Larson, who started the SRE function at Uber. His post elaborates on a &#8220;trunks and branches&#8221; model for developing infrastructure-facing teams. It also covered an interesting perspective on the balancing act of budget and service quality. I will explain the visual summary underneath it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,29,4],"tags":[41,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}