97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know

by Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey

If you create, manage, operate, or configure systems running in the cloud, you're a cloud engineer--even if you work as a system administrator, software developer, data scientist, or site reliability engineer. With this book, professionals from around the world provide valuable insight into today's cloud engineering role.

These concise articles explore the entire cloud computing experience, including fundamentals, architecture, and migration. You'll delve into security and compliance, operations and reliability, and software development. And examine networking, organizational culture, and more. You're sure to find 1, 2, or 97 things that inspire you to dig deeper and expand your own career.


Three Keys to Making the Right Multicloud Decisions, Brendan O'Leary
Serverless Bad Practices, Manases Jesus Galindo Bello
Failing a Cloud Migration, Lee Atchison
Treat Your Cloud Environment as If It Were On Premises, Iyana Garry
What Is Toil, and Why Are SREs Obsessed with It?, Zachary Nickens
Lean QA: The QA Evolving in the DevOps World, Theresa Neate
How Economies of Scale Work in the Cloud, Jon Moore
The Cloud Is Not About the Cloud, Ken Corless
Data Gravity: The Importance of Data Management in the Cloud, Geoff Hughes
Even in the Cloud, the Network Is the Foundation, David Murray
Cloud Engineering Is About Culture, Not Containers, Holly Cummins

Genres: Computer Science

310 pages, ebook

Published December 4, 2020

Reviews

[Łukasz Słonina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was expecting to learn something new, but only 3-5 items were interesting to me. Rest of the book is around basic cloud concepts and qualities of cloud applications. Overall too basic for experienced engineers, too shallow for fresh ones.

[SolidM · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite disappointing... It's one of those IT books where I only highlighted the text a very small number of times. Everything is way too general to really be interested for engineers with more than 1 or 2 years of experience.

[BubbyY · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it. It was pretty surface level and a little redundant, but I did get some resources (e.g., dev.to) and new-to-me tidbits (e.g., MicroVMs) out of it. Getting the refresher on the ACID properties of databases alone made it a good pickup for me, heh.

[Jascha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nothing special, just a lot of talk about cloud concepts, without diving into anything. Most are evangelists or consultants trying to sell you a product.

[Carlos Becker · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s missing the “for dummies” in the title.

[Vlad Voinov · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of high level things from random people. Almost nothing practical.