Best Practices for Refactoring Applications in the Cloud

The Doppler Cloud Podcast

Our guest on the podcast this week is Alexey Gerasimov, Vice President, Global Cloud Delivery at Cloud Technology Partners, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. We’ve been through several major technology paradigm shifts – from mainframe to client server to internet to, now, cloud. Cloud has given people the opportunity to refactor applications, which means different things to different people: From a minor change, akin to a chef adjusting ingredients in a seasoning, to a major shift like heart surgery. Refactoring provides the opportunity to think about how to get the most effective operations out of that application in the cloud, whether in terms of cost, disaster recovery, legal, security, or user experience. We also discuss how with Outpost, Azure Stack and Google Cloud’s new announcement of Anthos, there is a shift from public cloud vendors no longer focusing on moving everything to the public cloud, but rather on figuring out how organizations can most effectively run their business. We explain the three major reasons why organizations might not want to leverage public cloud: Jurisdiction of apps living within certain boundaries; increasing disconnected use models and difficulty with connectivity to public clouds; and, finally, application debt combined with data gravity and latency requirements. Finally, we offer advice on how to build the best cloud talent, including picking a few areas to maintain expertise in, staying on top of the latest industry developments, and always staying curious.