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Cloud Atlas: How The Cloud Reshaped Human Life

Dustin Lowman•www.cloudzero.com
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Cloud Atlas is the story of the cloud, from the people who invented it, invested in it, built businesses in it, and use it every day. Written and hosted by Dustin Lowman, an English-major-turned-cloud-tech-marketer, the show uses narrative elements and common-sense metaphors to break down technical topics in terms everyone can understand. Whether you're a tech worker or have only a *cloudy* understanding of all things tech, the story is a fascinating one. Made possible by CloudZero.
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S01E01: The Cloud Gathers

Just about everything you interact with digitally is enabled by the cloud. Whether you’re doom-scrolling on Instagram, binge-watching on Netflix, ride-hailing on Uber, or downloading super-cool cloud podcasts (hint, hint) on Spotify, you’re using the cloud. But most people don’t have any idea what the cloud is, where it came from, or what we, as a species, spend on it. Episode One of “Cloud Atlas” goes back to the birthplace of the cloud: a little digital bookstore called Amazon.com. Including c...

Apr 04, 2023•19 min•Ep. 1

S01E03: The Big Bang

An easy way to understand what the early cloud did is to think of it like a public utility. The same way buildings depend on a common set of utilities — gas, electricity, and water — software projects depend on a common set of services: compute, storage, and database. “Compute” refers to the power it takes to run the software. “Storage” refers to the part of cloud computing most of us know about — web-based storage, as opposed to local storage options, like personal hard drives. “Database” refer...

Apr 04, 2023•16 min•Ep. 3

S01E02: Death To The Monolith

For Amazon to survive, they needed the cloud. But they had to invent it — and creating the cloud meant overcoming obstacles fundamental to the nature of software development at the time. The main obstacle was what developers lovingly referred to as “The Monolith.” In Monolith architecture, it was like all elements of a software system were plugged into the same outlet, and if you wanted to replace or update one, you had to unplug the whole thing — not a sustainable structure for the kind of glob...

Apr 04, 2023•13 min•Ep. 2
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