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Skills, tools, and processes

Skills, tools, and processes

From the course: Cloud Architecture: Core Concepts

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Skills, tools, and processes

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- [Instructor] So what skills do you need to have to be a good cloud architect? Reality is that most good architects take a generalist approach across technologies. This means that good cloud architects know a lot about many things related to cloud computing. For instance, they may know the difference between object, block, and file storage in public cloud systems but may not understand specific detail such as application programming interfaces employed by each storage system. This good enough level of knowledge is helpful when building cloud architecture systems, you're picking from a number of different technologies and having specific knowledge and focus on a particular technology such as a cloud storage system sold by a specific cloud provider means you typically won't have the general knowledge needed to make effective comparisons across cloud providers. Also by not having product specific expertise, you won't…

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