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Within each chapter I’ll share a story that is relevant to the topic of discus- sion. These stories are either a personal experience that I have been involved in during my career or one of a peer or colleague. The names of companies, individuals, and products will be masked by fictitious names. Storytelling helps readers relate better to technical topics because we all have similar experiences throughout our careers. As with any other shift in technology, there is a lot of hype and many myths and misperceptions about cloud computing that lead to resistance or difficulties for some organizations in adopting the cloud. I have observed the same behavior numerous times in my career with the adoption of the Internet, service-oriented architecture (SOA), agile methodologies, and others. I have been fortunate enough to have multiple opportunities to be a pioneer for several of these technology shifts. I will use some stories from the past to show the parallels between the resistance to cloud computing and the resistance to the predecessor technologies.
Sachin Srivastava
Sachin Srivastava is a principal architect at Cloud Technology Partners and an industry analyst. He has served in technical roles such as chief technology officer, chief architect positions with over 15 years of experience building enterprise solutions in health care, retail, manufacturing, petroleum, consulting and loyalty marketing industries.
In 2014, as chief technology officer for start-up, his company won the prestigious Amazon AWS Global Start-Up Challenge. They built a high-speed micropayments network that processed digital incentives by integrating brick-and-mortar point-of-sale systems into a digital incentive PaaS built entirely on Amazon’s AWS public cloud. It was acquired in 2015. In his spare time he works with several start-ups in an advisory role focusing on architecture and cloud computing. When he is not staring at his computer he enjoys traveling to places in India for bird watching and photography.
