From the course: Avoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy

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Don't: Use a data center mentality

Don't: Use a data center mentality

From the course: Avoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy

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Don't: Use a data center mentality

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- [Narrator] Are you thinking in terms of operating your application in the dynamic infrastructure of the cloud, or are you still clinging to the traditional data center approach to managing your application and data? In today's world of fast-paced cloud native applications, the old way of thinking may be holding you back. Let's say one of your engineering teams is working on a new feature. The feature requires an additional production server in order to operate. What do they have to do to get to the server? In most data center focused organizations, requests for more server resources requires submitting a form request for new servers to be added to the data center. These servers have to be approved, purchased, essentially requisitioned. The process can take a long time to complete. In some cases, it can take months. But in dynamic cloud environments, resource allocation is automatic and dynamic. If a new feature…

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