What Cloud Engineers Could Learn from Clouds

A presentation at DevOpsDays Seattle 2022 in July 2022 in Seattle, WA, USA by Laura Santamaria

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle WHAT CLOUD ENGINEERS COULD LEARN FROM CLOUDS Laura Santamaria Developer Advocate

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle INTRO Or “wait, aren’t you a developer advocate?”

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle History

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PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES @nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran © CC NC SA

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Clouds and Clouds

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle DEFINITIONS

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Complex Systems

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Chaos and Chaotic Systems

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Patterns

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle LEARNING FROM CLOUDS

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle UNDERSTANDING CHAOTIC SYSTEMS Observations and Data

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Observations

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Experiments

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle MODELING AND PREDICTING BEHAVIOR How we make sense of things

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Data in, Data out

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Scale matters

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle WORKING WITH AND AROUND CHAOTIC SYSTEMS Errors, Limitations, and Knowledge

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Models aren’t perfect

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Model less complex things first

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER Some final thoughts

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Embrace failure

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@nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle Trust your experience

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THANKS @nimbinatus | #devopsdaysseattle https://pulumi.com/nimbinatus https://linktr.ee/nimbinatus Feedback welcome!