Reaching Cloud Velocity, a path to your serverless edge

“Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader’s Guide to Success in AWS Cloud” by Jonathan Allen and Thomas Blood captures guidance, advice, and hard-won wisdom. It’s written in a concise and digestible way. All leaders on a cloud journey should embrace this book. 

The action steps at the end of each chapter are well worth reviewing. They help you see how to apply them to your environment.

‘Reaching cloud velocity’ is your guidebook to cloud success

The book ‘Reaching Cloud Velocity’ is AWS-centric. You can apply the book’s contents to major cloud providers.

I found myself nodding along and smiling as I read through the book. The guidance and advice closely reflect my thoughts on enterprise transformation. There is a focus on differentiating capabilities and setting strategy with Wardley mapping and enabling and upskilling your people. It looks at migration approaches and selecting the right environment for team and organizational success. The book covers a well-architected framework and adopting a serverless first mindset and practice (with containers and serverless as friends, not rivals). The book ultimately focuses on delivering business value.

Serverless-first

There is strong Serverless content throughout the book. It focuses on Serverless’s history, principles, capabilities, benefits, and real-world success stories.  This book says containers and serverless should be “friends, not rivals” and shows how they can work in tandem to build modern applications.  I would encourage a Serverless-first mindset and approach with containers as a fallback in a spectrum of options. 

I love and wholeheartedly agree with their definition of serverless:

While serverless if very often championed as a way to reduce costs and scale massively and on demand, there is one extraordinarily compelling reason above all others to adopt a serverless first approach. Simply using serverless is the best way to achieve maximum development velocity over time and remove vast amounts of undifferentiated heavy lifting”.

“Reaching Cloud Velocity: A Leader’s Guide to Success in the AWS Cloud”

Helping your organization to realize its serverless edge.

‘Reaching cloud velocity’ sits alongside Wardley Mapping, Accelerate, and Team Topologies as go-to reference material that all leaders should leverage as they evolve their organizations for the cloud era.

This book will help you and your organization onto the path to realizing your serverless edge