Cloud is Like Alcohol
summary
FinAi builds a cloud-first lending platform using Azure PaaS and some IaaS; it automates deploys with ARM templates so each component deploys with one command but still needs manual clicks sometimes. Real incidents: Cosmos DB 4‑hour backups mean an eight-hour recovery window unless you email support; an unmonitored test VM ran out of CPU and stopped; a misdeploy exposes employee ID cards for a week; Service Bus outages create million-message backlogs; GPU needs push a GPU VM to €700/mo, so some workloads move to cheaper VMs.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 4:04Why cloud is like alcohol
- 11:02Building MVP under regulations
- 17:12Infrastructure automation challenges
- 23:02Security and compliance struggles
- 29:06Cloud reliability and quirks
- 32:07Data warehouse and GPU costs
- 35:50DevOps and deployment culture
- 38:50Can we quit the cloud?
- 40:20Q&A and closing
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