Getting Cloud Networking into your Head: Your Handy Dandy Tool for Troubleshooting Every Cloud Issue

As a developer, getting good at working in the cloud is essential to improving your upward mobility and keeping yourself marketable. While there is no silver bullet to solving cloud development challenges, there is one strategy that will help you troubleshoot any strange were-error message the cloud can throw at you: building your own mental model of how cloud networking works. AWS, Azure, and Google clouds are all built on APIs and software-defined networks. Every "weird" problem I've faced in the cloud had some network-related defect at the core of it. In this talk, we'll discuss a clear, concise, easy to understand mental model for reasoning about cloud networking that you can use to solve any problem you'll face working in the cloud. Come with your questions, stories, and scars: this is a safe place for us all to heal and learn!

Getting your head into the cloud by getting the cloud into your head

The cloud is a powerful and versatile technology, but it is complex and can be difficult to wrap your head around. The sheer amount of information and technology that make up cloud computing is literally mind-boggling. Foundational Thinking is a strategy for understanding complex subjects by breaking them down into core concepts and principles. In this talk, we'll discuss a mental model based on foundational thinking that will provide a clear, concise, and easy-to-understand way to reason about cloud computing that you can use in your daily work to better understand new technology, make more informed technical decisions, and get your head in the cloud.

I run my sessions very interactively, I like to be interrupted, take questions from the audiences, go on a journey and come back to the topic at hand.