A complete knowledge base, told as a keynote

The cloud,
explained in
moving pictures.

Nineteen chapters. One idea per slide. Every architecture diagram animated, so you watch the request travel instead of reading that it does.

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150 research documents1,174 slides written for a beginner8,381 more behind optional deep dives
The journeyEach chapter is a self-contained story. Start anywhere.
01What the cloud actually isSomebody else’s computers, in somebody else’s building, rented by the minute — and the four things every one of them is made of.107 slides
556 more in the research→
02How a visitor finds youNames, numbers, the padlock in the address bar, and the systems that carry one click across the world in a quarter of a second.89 slides
485 more in the research→
03The machines that run your codeHow one physical machine becomes forty, what you are choosing when you choose a size, and how the number of them changes by itself.37 slides
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04Software that runs the same everywhereSealing your software and everything it needs into one package, and the software that runs hundreds of those packages for you.47 slides
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05Code with no machine to look afterCode that exists only while it is running, what it costs when nobody is asking, and the delay you pay for the privilege.29 slides
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06Designing something that holdsOne program or several, how the parts talk to each other, and the four questions professionals ask of every design.45 slides
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07Surviving the day everyone arrivesKeeping answers ready in advance, growing sideways instead of upwards, and what actually happens when a building loses power.39 slides
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08Where the information livesThe three shapes information is kept in, why photographs and spreadsheets are stored differently, and where the bill actually comes from.46 slides
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09Asking questions of your informationHow one record is found without reading the others, the two main families of tool, and which shape of question suits which.45 slides
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10Keeping it all lockedAccounts, permissions, secrets, scrambled information, the rules you are legally obliged to follow, and what real break-ins looked like.86 slides
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11Changing it without fearKeeping every version, letting a machine do the releasing, writing your setup down as a file, and finding out something is wrong before your client does.106 slides
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12Amazon Web ServicesThe biggest catalogue in the industry, the twelve items that do most of the work, and how the bill is put together.34 slides
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13Microsoft AzureThe cloud built around a company’s own staff list, and the services you will actually use on it.19 slides
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14Google CloudStrong where the work is information or machine learning, and the home of the software that runs containers.19 slides
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15The smaller, faster cloudsThe cheaper clouds, the ones that host a website from a folder of code, and what happens when you want to leave one.54 slides
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16The bill, and how to bend itHow renting is charged for, how to estimate a project before you build it, where the money leaks, and when to stop renting.37 slides
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17Twelve systems, fully drawnRestaurant, shop, hospital, school, bank, chat, marketplace, booking and more — drawn, named and priced, one method every time.101 slides
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18Selling cloud, not hoursWhat agencies actually sell, what to charge, how to scope it, how to write it down, and how to be paid every month rather than once.148 slides
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19The twelve-month pathA week-by-week plan, which certificates are worth the money, what to put in a portfolio, and every question you will be asked.86 slides
698 more in the research→