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Day Two Cloud 012: Cloud Data Warehouse Migration – A Layer Cake Of Complexity

Data warehouses are complex beasts. If you want to migrate a warehouse to the cloud, there's a lot of layers to consider including encryption and security, automation, data sovereignty, right-sizing, which migration tools to use, and more. Today's Day Two Cloud podcast slices through the layers of complexity of data warehouse migration with guest Deepak Kaushik.

Day Two Cloud 011: Going All In On Serverless And DevOps

What's it like using serverless in production? We answer that question in this Day Two Cloud podcast with guest Robb Schiefer, who's running a live application on AWS Lambda for a healthcare company. We talk about why the organization adopted serverless, how they chose AWS, and how DevOps practices are key for ongoing operations.

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Day Two Cloud 007: Digital Transformation Is More Than Just Cloud Migration

Pushing your heritage application to the cloud won't digitally transform your company any more that slapping an Autobots symbol on your car makes it a Transformer. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, guest Martin Ehrnst delves into the nuances of digital transformation in the enterprise.

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Day Two Cloud 005: Building A Startup In The Cloud Is Easy, Right?

Today’s Day Two Cloud episode is all about the realities of building a startup in the cloud era. Guest Adam Bertram shares his experiences launching a startup using cloud services such as Trello, Zapier, and Lambda; discusses why good APIs matter; and talks about how to balance immediate needs against long-term technical debt.

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Day Two Cloud 004: How To Optimize Cloud For Cost And Performance Without Going Insane

Your monthly cloud bill can be shocking. On today's Day Two Cloud we talk with Iris Classon about how to optimize your cloud deployment for cost without killing performance--i.e., how to keep customers and finance happy without going insane.

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