Today, IT teams have access to more tools than ever before, many of which are very similar (or exactly the same thing). Fragmented tooling within an organization can present real problems. Onboarding new team members without a “standard” toolkit can lead to slow ramp up times and add drag to your deliverables. Even with your current staff, tool fragmentation can negatively impact the team’s ability to share knowledge and an individual’s ability to move from project to project quickly. This is where the “Golden Path” comes in.
Navigating the dark skies of moving to the cloud can be a difficult endeavor. Between the multiple cloud providers, hundreds of services (some providing similar functionality), evaluating your current codebase, and building the correct architecture, it’s hard to imagine it being a smooth flight.
In this article we are going to cover some considerations to make moving to the cloud a little bit easier. Sticking with the aviation metaphor, this article is meant to be like a radar so your organization can chart a clearer path forward. Obviously one article can’t cover every scenario but it should serve as a starting point and get you thinking.