With the emergence of “the cloud”, the landscape of software development has shifted to empower small businesses with luxuries previously unaffordable. With instant access to a plethora of tools and services, a small development team’s reach can now extend to millions of users and revenue. However, picking the right cloud provider is not a simple task, as the advantages of cloud computing greatly depend on your business needs and team’s expertise. Full write-up: https://by.dialexa.com/cloud-infrastructure-a-technical-perspective-on-software-platform-strategy

1. Benefits of Cloud Computing - A Technical
Perspective On Software Platform Strategy
by Luke Gordon
https://by.dialexa.com/cloud-infrastructure-a-technical-perspective-on-software-platform-strategy

2. Dialexa
We are on a mission to make every
company a great technology company.
We work with organizations to define and
execute digital transformation strategies to
improve business operations and customer
experiences. Our services include:
• Multi-Year Technology Roadmap
• Platform Engineering
• User Experience Design
• Custom Software Development
• Hardware Prototyping /IoT

3. Positioning your
software platform
strategy for success has
been discussed over the
past few blog posts
along with the Application
Continuum & Domain
Driven Design.
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4. Our final topic will cover an area which has grown
significantly over the past few decades and plays a critical
piece in any software platform’s success: infrastructure.
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5. Cloud Infrastructure
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6. Like Domain Driven Design
and knowing where to start
on the application continuum,
solidifying your cloud
infrastructure early on in
your approach positions you
for success later on.
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7. Infrastructure
covers a broad
range of
technologies and
tools, so to help
narrow the scope
for this post we’ll
focus specifically
on cloud providers.
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8. At Dialexa we’ve
worked with the 3
major providers on
multiple client
projects: Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Google
Cloud Platform (GCP),
& Microsoft Azure.
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9. With the emergence of
“the cloud”, the
landscape of software
development has shifted
to empower small
businesses with luxuries
previously unaffordable.
With instant access to a
plethora of tools and
services, a small
development team’s
reach can now extend to
millions of users and
revenue.
Get the full write up of
this slideshare HERE

10. However, picking the right cloud provider is
not a simple task, as the advantages of
cloud computing greatly depend on your
business needs and team’s expertise.
Get the full write up of
this slideshare HERE

11. To read more you can find the full article at
https://by.dialexa.com/cloud-infrastructure-a-technical-
perspective-on-software-platform-strategy

12. Top Cloud Infrastructure Providers
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13. Amazon’s cloud offering has
been a key role in it’s insane
growth over the past decade.
They’ve grown by over $400
billion dollars in 10 years &
continue to be the provider to
beat in regards of service
offerings. Services like Elastic
Beanstalk, RDS, and their
flagship service S3 grant your
platform power once
unimaginable.
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14. Also the introduction of AWS Lambda ignited discussions and attention
to serverless architectures which allows solutions to scale to even greater
heights. For teams who want a provider with an extensive number of service
offerings and a wealth of experience in some of the world’s largest scaling
businesses, AWS may enable your platform to disrupt the next market.
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15. While AWS does win in their
number of service offerings,
sometimes you can have too
much of a good thing. The
number of services in AWS can
be overwhelming at times and
their pricing model can be difficult
to optimize for your platform.
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16. Doing a quick google search on “optimize
cost in aws” reveals how many articles
cover this topic and even the number of
companies built solely to help manage it.
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17. Google’s Cloud Platform currently
provides fewer services, but wins in
some other important areas such
as pricing & environment
configuration. Anyone who’s worked
with AWS for an extensive amount of
time knows all too well how the
provider’s flexibility can unfortunately
make cloud management a hassle.
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18. Google’s Cloud Platform takes the opposite approach,
favoring convention over configuration. For teams
lacking a dedicated devops engineer or who want to
focus on non-infrastructure related tasks, this option
may position your platform for success.
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19. Finally, if your platform software heavily
relies on Microsoft, fear not! Microsoft
Azure is relatively young in the cloud
industry, but its focus & growth has
accelerated over the past year to put it in
discussion as a key provider in today’s
landscape. Most key services offered by
Google Cloud Platform & AWS are either
available or on the immediate road map.
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20. Furthermore Microsoft-based platform
solutions will benefit from key services
Azure offers which are hard to find in
the other 2 providers. Finally, Microsoft’s
focus on Azure for 2017 looks to advance
Azure even further into the competition
while including emerging markets such
as artificial intelligence (AI).
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22. If you’ve invested a great deal into
Microsoft-related technologies, Microsoft
Azure’s offerings may provide your team
with the all the power it needs to
dominate the next market.
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23. Whether you decide to
start off using AWS,
Google’s Cloud Platform,
or Microsoft Azure, keep
in mind the technology
platform you start off
with does not have to be
a permanent solution.
Just as we saw with the
application continuum
and defining domains,
your solution will evolve
over time.
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24. Keeping this thought at the
forefront of your mind
enables you to make
better strategic decisions
earlier on in your platform.
Eventually you may even
use a combination of
these platforms to solve
different business needs.
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25. From the Application Continuum to Domain Driven
Design to your solution’s infrastructure, building a
successful platform is no small undertaking and rarely
follows a cookie-cutter approach.
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26. However, experience & lessons
learned by experts as well as
best practices can help smoothen
your platform’s course to a
successful outcome.
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