Is 6641week TEN
AGENDA
The Journey So Far
The journey so far
carma.a9090z.com
Cloud Agnostic
Readiness for a Multiplier
Advantage!
OUR JOURNEY THIS SEMESTER
A SEVEN PART TRAGEDY
THINK ABOUT WHICH OF THE SEVEN ISSUES WORRIES YOU THE MOST. POST TO THE DISCUSSION ON CANVAS
The solutions architect’s dilemma
- Control vs Convenience
- Performance vs Cost
- Consistency vs Availability
- Security vs Velocity
The strategist’s dilemma
- What is mere infrastructure, and what is a future core competency?
- IT Doesn’t Matter – Nicholas Carr
- Don’t Outsource the Future – Clayton Christensen
- The commoditization of innovation.
The hyperscaler’s dilemma
- Hyperscalers – too big to fail, too big to ignore
- No AI without Cloud
The resilience dilemma
- More connected, More fragile
- Crowdstrike Falcon sensor
- One Key, Many Doors
- Identity as Master Key
- Scale of Impact of Zero-day exploits
- The Supply Chain Effect
The geopolitical dilemma
- Sovereign Clouds
- The global chip war
- ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography monopoly
- NVIDIA’s dominance
- Chinese emergence & work-arounds (Deepseek)
The ethical dilemma
- Environmental costs
- Unequal Access
- Digital Divide Re-emerges
- Data Exploitation and Consumer Vulnerability
- Algorithmic Bias and Fairness
- Weapons of Math Destruction
The skills dilemma
- Sunsets and Palimpsets
- Autonomous Systems and Amputation of Human skills
- Technomancy
- When Technomancy fails: The AI Skills Showerhead
- Good ol’ monoliths
- No one manages Kubernetes anymore
Enhance your role with cloud knowledge
14
Cloudify your role
Internal Path vs External Path
Cloudify your role
The hottest job in tech
https://a16z.com/services-led-growth/
17
Cloud & devops
18
Lab K LAB L
(both pass/fail – turn in something)
FINAL EXAM OPENS RIGHT AFTER FINAL WEBINAR
20
“CARMA CERTIFICATION”
100 QUESTIONS, TWO HOURS CLOSED BOOK, INTERNET, NEIGHBOR
21
LOOK OUT FOR SURVEY TO HELP IMPROVE THE MANUSCRIPT
GOOD LUCK!SEE YOU AROUND
LINKEDIN.COM/IN/A9090Z
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Is 6641week TEN
AGENDA
The Journey So Far
The journey so far
carma.a9090z.com
Cloud Agnostic Readiness for a Multiplier Advantage!
OUR JOURNEY THIS SEMESTER
A SEVEN PART TRAGEDY
THINK ABOUT WHICH OF THE SEVEN ISSUES WORRIES YOU THE MOST. POST TO THE DISCUSSION ON CANVAS
The solutions architect’s dilemma
The strategist’s dilemma
The hyperscaler’s dilemma
The resilience dilemma
The geopolitical dilemma
The ethical dilemma
The skills dilemma
Enhance your role with cloud knowledge
14
Cloudify your role
Internal Path vs External Path
Cloudify your role
The hottest job in tech
https://a16z.com/services-led-growth/
17
Cloud & devops
18
Lab K LAB L (both pass/fail – turn in something)
FINAL EXAM OPENS RIGHT AFTER FINAL WEBINAR
20
“CARMA CERTIFICATION”
100 QUESTIONS, TWO HOURS CLOSED BOOK, INTERNET, NEIGHBOR
21
LOOK OUT FOR SURVEY TO HELP IMPROVE THE MANUSCRIPT
GOOD LUCK!SEE YOU AROUND LINKEDIN.COM/IN/A9090Z
23