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Scale - How Cloud Computing took over the World.

(This is describing a book that would be interesting to read).

Chapter 1 - Cobol on the Mainframe

A description of how the world's financial infrastructure ran on mainframes from the 1970s onward.

Chapter 2 - The rise of the Internet

A quick description of the take off the internet and how companies would scale on the internet. Ops teams of hundreds and Solaris machines in data centers.

Chapter 3 - Containerization, Virtualisation and Separation of process/progams

The technological routes of virtualisation and containerisation, from the Mainframe to jails to containers.

Chapter 4 - Scaling by the majors

A description of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others scaled their own operations in the early 2000s.

Chapter 5 - Selling Scale

Heroku and then the birth of AWS.

Chapter 6 - Everyone in the Cloud

The growth of Cloud Computing with AWS, Azure, GCP, OCP, Hetzner, Digital Ocean etc, etc.



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