Episode 23: Most Likely to be Misunderstood: The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism

August 10, 2018 00:35:42
Episode 23: Most Likely to be Misunderstood: The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism
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Episode 23: Most Likely to be Misunderstood: The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism

Aug 10 2018 | 00:35:42

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Show Notes

It is easy to pick apart the general premise of Cloud agnosticism being a myth. What about reasonable use cases? Well, generally, when you have a workload that you want to put on multiple Cloud providers, it is a bad idea. It’s difficult to build and maintain. Providers change, some more than others. The ability to work with them becomes more complex. Yet, Cloud providers rarely disappoint you enough to make you hurry and go to another provider.

Today, we’re talking to Jay Gordon, Cloud developer advocate for MongoDB, about databases, distribution of databases, and multi-Cloud strategies. MongoDB is a good option for people who want to build applications quicker and faster but not do a lot of infrastructural work.

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