Summary: In this article, I provide a brief update on development of the Platform chapters of the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.
During the past three weeks I've been working on the following platform related chapters of the O'Reilly training series:
- Platform - Availability
- Platform - Design Principles & Patterns
- Platform - Cost Optimisation
Collectively, they account for close to twenty percent of the series and include topics such as:
- Estimating application availability
- Geographical distribution of resources
- Highly available Internet connectivity
- Self-healing systems
- Decoupling
- Cloud concepts
- PaaS
- Server-less architectures
- Event driven architectures
- Environment based scaling
Combined with my earlier work on security, the half way mark is within sight. With a number of lessons learns already, I should be able to pick up speed during the next six weeks and complete the project by 1 July; that is assuming that AWS do not modify any of their products and services in the mean time that results in rework - fingers crossed.