The Shift to Public Cloud

There are many approaches to building infrastructure and designing systems. There is no silver bullet for how things should be architected. Depending on the use case, how the data can be accessed, and the technical requirements, it may make more sense to build a stateless application on serverless systems or to run a database on bare metal. As we work through understanding and contrasting the differences in these architectures, it’s important to also provide examples of when certain approaches make more sense. Companies have been transitioning from on-premises, private cloud infrastructure to cloud-native, public cloud infrastructure, but this doesn’t mean that everything should be stateless and serverless. Depending on the architecture of current systems, what performance thresholds are required relative to cost constraints, and other factors, ultimately, customers will make the decision based on individual workload needs and the business value...