Untangling the Tangled Cloud

Explore effective strategies for organizing cloud resources in this 43-minute conference talk from SREcon23 Asia/Pacific. Learn how to arrange virtual machines, databases, and other services into logical groups that align with microservices and organizational structures. Discover simple metrics supporting high cohesion, low coupling, and the correlation between unit stability and inbound dependencies. Gain insights into Joshua Fox's consulting experiences and his open-source analysis tool, Ferent, developed for measuring inter-project dependencies in Google Cloud. Apply these principles to improve management, security, and cost analysis of cloud infrastructure across platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure.