Mansura Habiba - Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Operations Explained: Accelerate your application migration and modernization journey on the cloud with IBM and Red Hat

Accelerate your application migration and modernization journey on the cloud with IBM and Red Hat

Mansura Habiba

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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To my mom, Nazmun Nahar Khanam, and my dad, Abdul Wadud Khan, for being the best parents I could ever ask for. I owe them everything joyful and sound in my life. Also, to my brother, Nafiul Islam Khan (Earth), for being my best friend and counselor.

Mansura Habiba

Hybrid cloud is one of the most complex, exciting, and impactful areas to work in, helping organizations to redefine their business, migrate applications to new platforms, modernize workloads, adopt new consumption models, and eliminate waste. Open source, Kubernetes, and OpenShift have been at the forefront of this transition, allowing developers to build once and manage anywhere.

This book is the reference I wish I had when I was starting out in application modernization and migration! Its packed with information and provides a systematic approach, starting with business understanding and requirements mapping, and then deep-diving all the way to low-level design and technical architecture. It does a fantastic job of explaining concepts, key decisions, alternatives, and the impact of every approach, and teaches you how to think like an architect!

I had the pleasure of meeting Mansura a few years ago at an innovation session hosted by the Academy of Technology, where she joined my patent team and impressed everyone with her knowledge, confidence, and expertise across the software development life cycle. I was thrilled to learn she wanted to join our team as a cloud solutions leader and use that experience to help clients adopt the cloud and design better solutions, speaking as someone whos been there and done it and our go-to architect for complex solutions that require a DevSecOps mindset and a strong ability to lead.

Within a few years, I was thrilled to see Mansura author several courses and certifications, file multiple patents, obtain her Ph.D., and get appointed by the IBM Academy of Technology as a result of her giveback and leadership in the technical community, and take on a new challenge as a hybrid cloud platform architect, building a new offering from scratch. Prolific doesnt even begin to describe it. To quote a colleague, Shes everywhere if you need help, just go to Mansura!

Happy reading!

Mihai Criveti,

CTO Cloud Native and Red Hat Solutions,

STSM & RHCA II, IBM Consulting

Mansura Habiba is a platform architect at the Hybrid Cloud Management Center of Competency at IBM. She has been working in IT, application development, application modernization and migration, and architecture design for over 15 years.

Mansura has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from Maynooth University, Ireland. She is a certified solution architect for IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Pak for Automation, a certified site reliability engineer and certified administrator for IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOPs, a certified professional IBM cloud developer, and a professional IBM Watson developer. Mansura can be found providing and sharing information on social media, at industry conferences, on her blog site, and on her YouTube channel.

Rafflesia Khan works for IBM in Dublin as a software developer. She specializes in developing and testing full stack software applications. In addition, she is a part-time Ph.D. student at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She has a BSc and MSc in computer science and engineering from Khulna University, Bangladesh. Having a strong background in problem analysis, programming, designing, developing, debugging, and testing, she is committed, hardworking, creative, and proactive. She taught computer science at Khulna University for almost a year and participated in teaching at UL as a moderator. During the past 3 years, she has published some work and is currently engaged in ongoing research projects.

Dwarkanath Rao has over 21 years of experience as a quick learner and adopter of new technologies. He is a highly experienced and seasoned strategist, with an excellent track record in delivering highly complex large-scale enterprise infrastructure. He is a good customer-facing leader with great presentation skills. Guiding clients across Europe and Canada through hybrid cloud strategies, he collaborates with CTOs and CIOs in building trust and developing their cloud journey and strategy, focusing on cost savings and technical innovation to enhance their IT business operating models and deploying modernized application rollouts in a timely manner.