Preface

Speeding up time to market, lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO), reducing CapEx, enabling self-service, and reducing complexity are important cloud goals; however, the desired outcomes don’t always materialize. With edge computing making its way through all industries on top of ongoing journeys to the public cloud (and back), it’s vital to share working recipes for organizations to find their preferred way of extracting the most value out of their technology investments.

This book demonstrates a practical way of building a strategy-aligned operating model while considering a variety of related aspects such as culture, leadership, team structures, metrics, intrinsic motivators, team incentives, tenant experience for development and product teams, platform engineering, operations, open source, and technology choices – just to name a few. You’ll understand how single, multi, or hybrid cloud architectures, security models, automation, application development, workload deployments, and app modernization can be re-utilized for edge workloads to help you build a secure, yet flexible technology operating model. You will learn how to build a distributed technology operating model using a case study.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build your own fit-for-purpose operating model for your organization in an open culture way.