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Overcoming IT Complexity: Simplify Operations, Enable Innovation, and Cultivate Successful Cloud Outcomes 1st Edition

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The cloud promises cost savings, agility, and more. But the increasing complexity of modern IT systems often prevents businesses from realizing the outcomes they sought by moving to the cloud in the first place. At the core of this complexity is technical debt. Ad hoc decisions, traditional approaches, and "quick and dirty" solutions add up to fragile, more complex systems (and organizations)--reducing the pace of change, driving up costs, and degrading security. To succeed in the cloud, you first have to manage the problems IT complexity creates. This practical guide will help.

If you're tasked with designing, delivering, or approving IT systems that support business growth, this book will teach you the principles and strategies you need to break out of silos, reassess traditional thinking, provide the business a better competitive position, and achieve cloud success across the company.

You'll learn:

  • How to assess your current IT environment to identify complexity-centered risks
  • How to structure cross-functional teams to reduce friction points
  • How to create a framework for IT investments that's aligned with your business goals
  • How to measure your outcomes for continued success

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Overcoming IT Complexity

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The complexity of modern IT systems can impact your application’s quality and security.

It’s that simple.

Business pressures have caused IT organizations to focus on creating new applications and adding new features and capabilities to existing applications to meet increasing competitive demands. The result is insufficient time to work on managing, operating, and maintaining existing applications and capabilities. Ignoring ongoing issues increases technical debt, which in turn increases the complexity of modern systems. Increased system complexity makes adding new features and capabilities harder, and the vicious circle continues.

Addressing the IT complexity dilemma is essential, but it is not easy. In this book, we begin by examining this dilemma and how it impacts you, your applications, and your organization. Then we talk about identifying and measuring complexity in your organization today. How can you measure complexity without introducing complex measurement systems? Since you can’t improve a system until you can measure it, this ability is critical to managing IT complexity.

Next, we examine solutions for reducing IT complexity and the cognitive load it induces. We discuss the role of adaptive architectures in modernizing applications, considering both how they can reduce complexity and the risk of increased complexity they may carry.

We then explore how knowledge management techniques can assist in reducing cognitive load and IT complexity, and how your strategy for investing in your infrastructure impacts complexity.

Finally, I provide some advice on how to begin conversations within your organization about the impact of IT complexity on your company, your products, and your applications.

The goal of this book is to give you the tools you need to understand how IT complexity can negatively impact your company and your applications, and how you can break the cycle to effectively manage its effect on your organization.

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About the Author

Lee Atchison is a recognized industry thought leader in cloud computing and the author of the bestselling book Architecting for Scale (O'Reilly), currently in its second edition. Lee has 36 years of industry experience, including eight years at New Relic and seven years at Amazon and AWS, where he led the creation of the companyâ??s first software download store, created AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and managed the migration of Amazon's retail platform to a new service-based architecture. Lee has consulted with leading organizations on how to modernize their application architectures and transform their organizations at scale. Lee is an industry expert and is widely quoted in publications such as InfoWorld, Diginomica, IT Brief, Programmable Web, CIO Review, and DZone. He has been a featured speaker at events across the globe from London to Sydney, Tokyo to Paris, and all over North America.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (January 17, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 107 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1492098493
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1492098492
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Cloud strategist, thought leader, industry expert

Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, public speaker, and recognized thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His premier book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee has been widely quoted in multiple technology publications, including Cloud Native Now (formerly Container Journal), InfoWorld, Diginomica, IT Brief, Programmable Web, CIO Review, and DZone, and has been a featured speaker at events across the globe.

Lee has more than three decades of industry experience, including seven years at Amazon and AWS, and eight years at observability software provider New Relic. Lee is also the author of the operational framework STOSA, which helps companies modernize and scale their organizations in a modern world.

To begin learning from Lee, see a full list of his books and available online courses. Also be sure to check out Lee’s Cloud Native Now column, where he writes regularly about cloud computing. He also has a regular blog and hosts the Modern Digital Business podcast.

Lee provides consulting services for organizations that want to modernize and move their applications into the cloud. To book a consultation with Lee, schedule a call.

Check out his website leeatchison.com, and see what else Lee has to offer at leehaslinks.com.

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I had the feeling of reading a common sense dissertation on the topics. Nothing to really enrich our internal architects battles against a full scale information system complexity.
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