{"id":6425,"date":"2024-03-26T12:21:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T02:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2024-03-28T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T02:21:50","slug":"sre-2016-book-reaction-chapter-1-part-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/sre-2016-book-reaction-chapter-1-part-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"#34 From Cloud to Concrete: Should You Return to On-Prem?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span class=\"stk-highlight\" style=\"color: var(--base-3);background-color: var(--contrast-3)\">Episode 34 [SREpath Podcast]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-0de1a18b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-fe753567\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-fe753567\">\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4tWVBvYf8iRMnf79jhVO4F?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"show-notes\">Show notes<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>This episode continues our coverage of Chapter 2 of the Site Reliability Engineering book (2016) by Betsy Beyer, Jennifer Pettof, Niall Murphy, et al. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in this second part, we talk about the age-old debate of cloud vs on-prem, which is analogous to that other debate we have in the technology of build vs buy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on, we got a little technical and discussed thinking behind storage options and load-balancing strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are key takeaways from our conversation: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Adapt your storage solutions to business needs:<\/strong> Understand the diverse storage options available and tailor them to specific business needs, considering factors like data type, access patterns, and scalability requirements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Optimize your load balancing:<\/strong> Implement global load balancing strategies to optimize user experience and performance by directing traffic to the nearest data center to minimize latency, and maximize resource utilization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t hesitate to continuously evaluate your cloud:<\/strong> Assess the suitability of cloud solutions against your organization&#8217;s needs, considering factors like cost, control, scalability, and security, and be open to reevaluating decisions based on evolving requirements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Make strategic decisions for your operations footprint: <\/strong>Lean on decisions based on thorough analysis that considers:\n<ul>\n<li>financial implications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>internal capabilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>alignment with business goals and <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>long-term sustainability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Encourage objective evaluation and formal planning processes in decision-making<\/strong>: avoid emotional reactions or being swayed by external influences, to ensure decisions are based on sound analysis and truly aligned with organizational goals.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 34 [SREpath Podcast] Show notes This episode continues our coverage of Chapter 2 of the Site Reliability Engineering book (2016) by Betsy Beyer, Jennifer Pettof, Niall Murphy, et al. Later in this second part, we talk about the age-old debate of cloud vs on-prem, which is analogous to that other debate we have in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,47],"tags":[86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425"}],"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=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sysmit.com\/cf22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}