Cloud Reliability Blueprint for a trustworthy infrastructure

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DEVOPS

Oct 20, 2023

About Speaker

Gopal Sharma

AVP - Engineering, Junglee Games

Gopal Sharma is an accomplished technology leader with a robust background in managing diverse teams and driving innovation. Currently serving as a pivotal force in a prominent company, they lead a team of six professionals in DevOps, network administration, and end-user support. With expertise in cloud solutions such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, conducts design studies, feasibility analyses, and recommends cost-effective solutions.Gopal has developed a systems that are accountable for the uptime of all online products, oversee release management, and champion automation in DevOps activities. Additionally, the Gopal excels in handling technology audits, driving new solution implementations, and managing vendor relationships. Their role extends to advising software development teams on architecting web interfaces for optimal performance in the ever-evolving cloud environment. Overall, Gopal's strategic vision and hands-on approach contribute significantly to the technological success of their organization.

About Host

Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan

Co-founder and CTO, Amnic

Sathya is an experienced technologist with over two decades in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electric Vehicles (EV), and Distributed Systems. As the Co-founder and CTO of Amnic, he drives the development of a cloud Intelligence Platform, emphasizing efficiency, cost reduction, and reliability. Sathya's leadership spans roles at Ola Electric Mobility, Ola Cabs, Yahoo and many internet companies. With 11 patents in AI, EV, and Distributed Systems, he is committed to knowledge sharing and guiding industry thought leaders.

Summary of Podcast

In the "Cloud Reliability Blueprint: Your path to a trustworthy infrastructure" , Gopal Sharma, a seasoned technology leader with two decades of experience, shares insights into Junglee Games' technological evolution. Starting as a small team in 2017, the company grew exponentially, and Gopal discusses their transition to a DevOps culture, overcoming challenges in infrastructure, and adapting to increased data and traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Key points include the adoption of new technologies like Nomad and migration to Amazon EKS. Gopal emphasizes the importance of proper project management in cloud migration, minimal transformations, and understanding current architecture. The video covers incident management, observability, and cost optimization, highlighting tools like Coral Logics and New Relic.

Gopal concludes by stressing the implementation of a DevOps culture, with key takeaways emphasizing collaboration, project management roles, and the importance of observability in the ever-evolving cloud ecosystem. The video ends with insights into proactive cloud infrastructure security and expressions of gratitude for the informative discussion.

About Amnic

Amnic is a cloud cost observability platform, helping businesses measure and rightsize their cloud costs. Amnic helps businesses visualize, analyze and optimize their cloud spends, in turn building a lean cloud infrastructure. Amnic offers out of the box solutions that help breakdown cloud bills and provide greater visibility and understanding into cloud costs along with recommendations to lower spends, alerts and anomaly detection.

Amnic delivers a wide range of features including K8s visibility, cost analyzer, alerts and custom reporting, budgeting, forecasting and smart tagging. DevOps and SRE teams rely on Amnic to deliver a simplified view into their cloud costs, allowing them to maintain governance and build a culture of cost optimization. Setup in 5-minutes and get 30-days of free trial.

Visit www.amnic.com to get started.

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