Paul Zikopoulos - Cloud Without Compromise

by Paul Zikopoulos and Christopher Bienko , with Chris Backer , Chris Konarski , and Sai Vennam

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The five of us got together and wrote a book that might (at times) be too technical for business leaders, but too business-y for technical people. If this is a complaint youve got after reading this bookperfect! While we definitely put some technical stuff in here, if youre looking for a book on how to use kubectlthe CLI interface for Kubernetesor use generator to create a ConfigMap, this is not the book for you.

Our experience has shown usmore than any one of us wants to admitthat too many business people dont truly understand the technology theyre signing the bills for (or for that matter, that technologys potential). Nothing good comes of this: late projects, missed expectations, excessive costs, and worse yetlost opportunities. If business teams lack the chops to challenge IT or understand technology discussions within their organizations, its akin to using a decades-old word translation algorithm. For example, one famous algorithm took a US phrase, The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, and translated it into Russian as, The vodka is good but the meat is rotten. We think you get our point. Business peopleif your spirit is willing, we cant promise you good vodka; but we can promise you a good (in fact, a great) foundation to a cloud strategy that lets you lead from the front and helps you be the leader you want to be.

At the same time, this book is for all those propeller heads (we know you well, we are you) who get enthralled with the underpinnings but fail to realize that technology for technologys sake doesnt help a business succeed. If you fit that profile, this book is going to really help drive your career because there are not a lot of people that have your technical backgrounds. Beyond helping the organizations you work for succeed, this book will give you options to pond jump into myriad leadership roles across your company and accelerate your career. For whatever pothole or mountain of accomplishments our authoring team has, we can tell you that it all came from a deep technology start with layers of business experience and acumen added over the years. Were not saying be like us (that may or may not be a good thing), but we are telling you this: technology people who understand business outperform technology people who dont understand business.

). If you work big-box retail, oil and gas, banking, airlines, government, insurance, consumer packaged goods (the list goes on and on), we can pretty much guarantee you that you fit into this group. This book is for you because youve definitely got some cloud going on, but you may not be making the progress youd hoped for or (quite commonly) youre not getting the returns you thought youd be getting and wondering if youre doing it right.

This book requires no previous knowledge of cloud. The topics we introduce will be helpful for a vast audience, ranging from business leaders to technical folks across all industries. If youre a business leader, youll know just the questions to ask, the corners to look around, and the ideas to challenge as you tactfully plan your forward-thinking cloud strategy. If youre a technical person, youll understand how your expertise can drive forward the organizations you work for with a solid understanding of how cloud challenges (especially for large-sized companies) are much different than a startups Swipe your credit card and lets get going approach.

Whomever you are, we think the concepts you need to know to successfully scale a cloud strategy and get all the value out of cloud can be found in the pages that follow.