Chapter 1. The Cloud and the DevOps Revolution

The tech industry is constantly changing. The internet was born only a quarter of a century ago but has already transformed the way we live. "Every day, over a billion people visit Facebook¹; every hour, approximately 18,000 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube²; and every second, Google processes approximately 40,000 search queries³." (Refer to this websites https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102329188394581, _{https://fortunelords.com/youtube-statistics, and}http://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics) Being able to handle such a staggering scale isn't easy. Thanks to this book, you will have a practical guide to adopting a similar philosophy, tooling, and best practices to these companies. Through the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will be able to build the key principles to efficiently manage and scale your infrastructure, your engineering processes and your applications with minimal cost and effort.

This first chapter will explain in detail the new paradigms of:

• Thinking in terms of cloud and not infrastructure
• Adopting a DevOps culture
• Deploying in AWS following DevOps best practices