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Cloud Migration

Moving to the cloud, and the ways it goes wrong in the middle. Why the economics favor the move, the misstep almost everyone makes, how complexity behaves during a migration, and why stopping halfway is the worst place to stand.

  1. Cloud Strategy & Economics
    Don’t stop your migration!

    Application migrations rarely deliver benefits in a straight line — there's a painful low point where effort has gone up but nothing feels better yet. A real story of a company that quit at the bottom of that valley, and why sticking it out pays off.

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  2. Cloud Strategy & Economics
    You can’t afford not to be in the cloud

    A CEO who compares cloud server pricing directly to on-prem server pricing is only looking at half the ledger. The real financial case for the cloud is dynamic resource allocation and a shift from capital expense to cost of goods sold.

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  3. Cloud Strategy & Economics
    The Big Cloud Migration Misstep

    Lift-and-shift feels like the safe first move into the cloud, but moving an application unchanged means paying for static resources instead of the cloud's real advantage: dynamic scaling. Why that shortcut can be the most expensive mistake in a migration.

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  4. Cloud Strategy & Economics Scalability & System Design
    Managing Complexity in a Cloud Migration

    Why complex applications make cloud migration risky, and how piecemeal (service-by-service) migration, chaos engineering, and static software-intelligence analysis reduce that risk before and after the move.

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