Re: Suggestions on moving to cloud
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:28:10 -0400
Message-ID: <0ff99a90-567a-501f-6b0c-e11977e435e5_at_gmail.com>
Hello Experts, Being worked mainly in database development, performance tuning side (that to mostly Oracle(plsql) and those are on-premise and now on Exadata). And considering current technology trends which is mostly driving toward cloud(and AWS being vastly used one). And even organization is asking to have well versed with same cloud technology. Is there any specific path we should follow or say specific document/books to read or certification advisable to move through this transition easily?
As i understand there are hundreds of services in AWS and also got to know of certification there like "AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator , AWS Certified Developer etc". So, are these the basic stepping stones to go through? A clarity on this would be greatly helpful.
Regards
Pap
Pap, I'll let you have it without any embellishments. Every cloud
is essentially the same thing: running your stuff on somebody
else's equipment. All certifications basically attest your
knowledge of the vendor's marketing terms like "S3 storage" or
"glacier" and the knowledge of the self-service VM menus. Running
things on somebody else's equipment isn't new, IBM was doing it in
1970's. Current vendors can sell the same physical CPU multiple
times. You probably have more virtual processors on your virtual
machines than there are physical processors on the machine running
the hypervisor. IBM couldn't do that, they were charging by the
used CPU time and consumed disk space. So, basically, each of
those certifications attests to your familiarity with the
corporate virtualization menus. In other words, those
certifications are meaningless. Whether to move your database to a
cloud or not is a business decision, not a technology decision. I
would advise checking the collected works of Scott Adams for the
guiding principles.
-- Mladen Gogala Database Consultant Tel: (347) 321-1217 https://dbwhisperer.wordpress.com-- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Fri Apr 15 2022 - 01:28:10 CEST