Cloud computing to attack the Invid are you ready?

What is the operation of most small and medium-sized enterprises? Configuration services, coordinated on-line, service monitoring, data backup, there are unavoidable to do coolie to carry the machine??

If one day, all this no longer need people to do, what should you do?

Changes in the field of operation and maintenance

The trend is becoming more apparent as cloud computing hits the ground. Recently, a friend to do yun-dimensional chat with me when feeling, said that feeling now the whole industry's hot spots in the development field, suddenly feel that there is no development in the field of operation and maintenance. Before that, I was in the garage open source group with white clean chat, they are also the emotion of the operational dimension is happening in some changes.

"Before, you have to buy a server, find IDC to find a room, rack a system, and then do a variety of things to ensure that the business does not down." But later, "white clean pointed to the grand cloud computing home said," Cloud host, cloud storage, database cloud, these are all done. ”

At present, the domestic public cloud in the calculation of resources to rent this direction, Sheng is generally accepted to do relatively good, that is, the high tariff is hindered its popularity, after all, public cloud this thing for small and medium-sized Enterprises is to save money. In time, grand if the cost can be done, the popularization of the estimate is a question of timing.

"In your opinion, will the career of Yun-wei be extinct?" ”

"I don't think so," he said. The career of Yun-Wei will certainly change with the development of the whole, but I think it will not perish. "White cleanliness is quite certain. "Like the company decided to use cloud computing, then he will think, I use which cloud service?" Just as the grand cloud, the storage is a cloud storage, Mongoic, database cloud, how do I choose? These need to have the enterprise side of the investigation, it is not entirely by the cloud service provider to help you decide. ”

These views coincide with last year's Omniti Theo and the author's communication. If your core business is it, it is doomed that you will not be able to outsource all of it, and ultimately need someone to ensure that your service is stable and smooth. After all, there is no army in the world that will outsource all of its logistics!

What is needed for a new generation of operational dimensions

However, overall, as the outsourcing of IT services will still increase, the overall industry on the operation of the demand must be shrinking, and will require the operation of the maintenance of the different capabilities of the past. So, what will the next generation of operational dimensions need? Here are some directions that I have observed.

1. Product development

In the last few years, there is a popular concept called DevOps in the operational dimension, whose basic idea is similar to the agile operation in the development field. The key of DevOps is to fully understand the similarities and differences between the development environment and the production environment, and coordinate with the development team for rapid iterative deployment. Because the essence of operation is stability, there is a natural resistance to change, and DevOps requires that Yun-Wei can bravely meet the rapid changes.

All these require the operation of the development process has a deep understanding, and when necessary, they can also swing up the sleeve to improve the code. Especially for fast-iterative internet companies, people deploying applications must be able to work closely with the product technology team.

Embrace change like a development.

2. Knowledge

Do I need to use NoSQL for my business? Cassandra and MongoDB better for me? What are the characteristics of cloud storage, Mongoic, database cloud? What's the choice of CDN service? Do you need to use SSD? How much does the cache need? Which file system is selected? Which one does the operating system choose? Which Web server do you choose? What are the characteristics of the various storage? What are the characteristics of the various virtualization systems? How do you prepare for future horizontal expansion when your business starts running? What problems are you likely to encounter with OpenStack? Is Hadoop the right thing for us? Which one does the MySQL engine choose? Which is the search engine to choose? Wait a minute??

As Yun-Wei, is to have anything to dabble. Especially when there are more and more items to choose from, a thoughtful operation will reduce many of the potential technical costs, especially when the CTO of the Enterprise, the project manager itself is more adept at a particular area, and the problem is easy to ignore.

Now there are a lot of technical conferences and offline Salon, for the technical people to provide a platform for communication, these are good opportunities. Some people may say, all day is Taobao, Baidu, Sina these massive data, the website of the huge structure speaks to say, we these small and medium website and the traditional enterprise simply does not use. However, in a different way, these sites in the growth of the size of the problems encountered, how they are resolved, why do they choose this or that technology, their implementation of the idea is what, these are not all valuable experience? The accumulation and inheritance of experience is a necessary step in the process of mature industry.

Don't be afraid to cross the field, do not need to use now, Operation Dimension should be a fairy who knows everything.

3, the bottom core structure

Although the deployment, monitoring, backup and other tasks are more and more do not need people to do, but after all, there are some technical work is machine and tactics can not be solved.

At last year's Velocity conference, Dr. Zhangwensong said to the author: "A very large system, even if my performance is only optimized 1%, for 10,000 machines, this means that 100 units can be saved." The size of the environment is large enough, this optimization is worth doing very deep. Basically, behind every large-scale website, there are a few of Daniel who know the bottom core very well, from the system layer and even the hardware layer to optimize the whole system, or from the network protocol, distributed aspects to optimize the whole system. They may be architects, perhaps scientific engineers, and whatever the title is, they are the ones who are scrambling to rob them.

So if you have a hand in the study of the bottom line, it's a natural future. Of course, this road is very difficult to walk, you have to sink the air, can withstand loneliness??

4. Business and data analysis

Two years ago at the TechEd conference, I listened to a class of SQL Server data analysis and report making. Ask your classmates what they are doing, and answer them to the DBA. It was a bit of a surprise that the DBA was concerned about how to report data to the leader. The DBA says that doing the SQL Server thing, data analysis is a necessary skill.

Theo has also expressed a similar view, suggesting that operations should learn statistics, read data, understand business needs, consider cost control, and even business liquidity issues. Enterprises to hire every employee is to create value, the more able to close to the core value of the enterprise, can become the enterprise in the attention of the people. Like Taobao engaged in double an activity, Taobao's core operations, application operation and maintenance team must be one of the core decisions in the activity team. As the first people to reach the user data, if they can take advantage of this and bring more direct value to the enterprise, then Yun-Wei will not always be regarded as a waste of money scapegoat.

Talk to products, business people, business managers, and you'll know what your value is.

Ready to enter the era of cloud computing, do you want to go in which direction? If you have other ideas, also welcome to share!

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)