Episode 36: I'm Not Here to Correct Your English, Just Cloud Bills
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Do you enjoy watching sports? Wear your favorite team or player’s jersey? Are you a fan who has shopped at Fanatics on the Cloud?

Today, we’re talking to Johnny Sheeley, director of Cloud engineering at Fanatics, which is a sports eCommerce business that manufactures and sells sports apparel. Fanatics runs Cloud engineering to provide a robust and reliable set of services by building and deploying applications on top of the Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) platform.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

• If you compete with Amazon, be ready for it to come after you; some companies avoid its Cloud perspective or go multi-Cloud (paranoia-based movement)

• Focus on your ability to make your business function smoothly

• Transition, migration, and abstraction may be painful, but should not stop work; paying for Cloud-agnostic technology may not be worth it

• Challenges of governing use of Cloud resources to prevent mistakes/problems related to Fanatics’ security and budget

• Data collected focuses on what’s trending up or down to select an instance type that calculates costs; remain flexible and be aware of what you pay

• Natural instinct is to blame people; mistakes are made, especially when a human factor is introduced to an automated system

• Creating a mindset that focuses on feature and detail-oriented is challenging

• Cottage industry of code bases running in Big Data and other expensive realms

• As a product continues to evolve and grow, governance comes along for the ride and AWS bills are streamlined

• Will serverless, Lambda, and RDS change how Amazon charges in the future?

• State of scale of AWS and developing a more palatable method for releases because people can’t keep up with them and stop paying attention

• Two-Pizza Team: Amazon’s management philosophy that any team that works on a service should be able to be fed with two pizzas

• Such small teams work quickly and have the freedom to fail, but Amazon has a reliability for the longevity of its different services

Links:

• Johnny Sheeley's Email)

• Johnny Sheeley on Twitter)

• Rands Leadership Slack)

• Hangops.slack.com)

• Fanatics)

• Kubernetes)

• Azure)

• Lambda)

• RDS)

• Getafix: How Facebook Tools Learn to Fix Bugs Automatically)

• Accidentally Quadratic Blog)

• re:Invent)

• Jeff Barr’s AWS News Blog)

• Amazon SimpleDB)

• Lots of Amazon's projects have failed...and that's ok, says Amazon's Andy Jassy)

• Digital Ocean)

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