{"id":12740,"date":"2015-03-16T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3293710"},"modified":"2015-03-16T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T08:45:00","slug":"cloud-pets-cattle-and-chickens-by-bernardgolden-devopssummit-devops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-pets-cattle-and-chickens-by-bernardgolden-devopssummit-devops\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud: Pets, Cattle and&#8230;Chickens? By @BernardGolden | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve spent any time at leading cloud computing conferences, you may have come across the meme \u201cpets vs cattle.\u201d (Here is a lengthy slideshare presentation by Randy Bias of EMC\/Cloudscaling discussing the difference between pets and cattle in a cloud computing world.) The message associated with this meme is that we should have different attitudes about traditional infrastructure versus today\u2019s cloud infrastructure.<br \/>\nTraditional infrastructure is expensive and individuated \u2013 we give servers names, we lavish attention on them, and when they suffer problems we do evaluation, diagnosis, and nurse them back to health via hands-on administration. In other words, we treat them as part of a family. This is true whether the server is physical or virtual; they are long-lived and stable, and therefore deserve personal attention and emotional attachment \u2013 just like a pet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3293710\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;ve spent any time at leading cloud computing conferences, you may have come across the meme &ldquo;pets vs cattle.&rdquo; (Here is a lengthy slideshare presentation by Randy Bias of EMC\/Cloudscaling discussing the difference between pets and cattle in a cloud computing world.) The message associated with this meme is that we should have different attitudes about traditional infrastructure versus today&rsquo;s cloud infrastructure.<br \/>\nTraditional infrastructure is expensive and individuated &ndash; we give servers names, we lavish attention on them, and when they suffer problems we do evaluation, diagnosis, and nurse them back to health via hands-on administration. In other words, we treat them as part of a family. This is true whether the server is physical or virtual; they are long-lived and stable, and therefore deserve personal attention and emotional attachment &ndash; just like a pet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3293710\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}