IT Pro Live: Avoiding common cloud mistakes
The Scale Factory CEO Jon Topper shares what he's learned over the course of two years of cloud reviews
Since April 2018, The Scale Factory have reviewed over 200 workloads on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. In this keynote session, CEO Jon Topper shares how The Scale Factory goes about running a review, and talks about some of their findings. Watch now to learn what aspects of architecture and operations teams struggle with, and how IT professionals can avoid these problems themselves.
Jon Topper
CEO, The Scale Factory
Jon Topper runs The Scale Factory, a team of cloud infrastructure and DevOps experts based in London, UK. He's worked on infrastructure problems for Fortune 500 companies, and startups, across a range of market sectors.
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