What Cloud Engineers Could Learn from Clouds
A presentation at DevOpsDays Seattle 2022 in in Seattle, WA, USA by Laura Santamaria
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle WHAT CLOUD ENGINEERS COULD LEARN FROM CLOUDS Laura Santamaria Developer Advocate
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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle INTRO Or “wait, aren’t you a developer advocate?”
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PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES @nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran © CC NC SA
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Clouds and Clouds
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle DEFINITIONS
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Complex Systems
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Chaos and Chaotic Systems
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Patterns
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle LEARNING FROM CLOUDS
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle UNDERSTANDING CHAOTIC SYSTEMS Observations and Data
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Observations
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Experiments
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle MODELING AND PREDICTING BEHAVIOR How we make sense of things
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Data in, Data out
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Scale matters
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle WORKING WITH AND AROUND CHAOTIC SYSTEMS Errors, Limitations, and Knowledge
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Models aren’t perfect
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Model less complex things first
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER Some final thoughts
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Embrace failure
@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Trust your experience
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Let’s talk about clouds. No, not that kind of cloud with other people’s computers. Let’s talk about the kind of clouds that kids draw as fluffy puffballs. Did you know that clouds are complex, chaotic systems that have a lot in common with our tech clouds of today? Weather systems and planetary atmospheres are fascinating explorations in understanding, modeling, and (attempting to) predict complex chaotic systems in an applied setting, and the human race has been studying clouds for millions of years. We’ve only started studying them from the perspective of mathematics and physics in recent times—a timeframe measured in hundreds of years. In comparison, the modern cloud-based computing world has only been around for a “short” time. There’s a lot we can learn from the world of meteorology and atmospheric science, so let’s go on a tour through our atmosphere and beyond, and see what we can learn about understanding, modeling, and predicting complex systems from these ephemeral masses of vapor.
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