5 Essential Cloud Architecture Principles
February 1, 2024
5 Essential Cloud Architecture Principles
Building robust cloud applications requires following proven architectural principles. Here are the five most important ones I’ve learned from years of consulting experience.
1. Design for Failure
Assume everything will fail and build resilience into your systems from day one.
2. Embrace Automation
Manual processes don’t scale. Automate everything you can.
3. Monitor Everything
You can’t improve what you don’t measure.
4. Keep It Simple
Complexity is the enemy of reliability.
5. Security First
Build security into your architecture, don’t bolt it on later.
These principles have saved my clients millions in infrastructure costs and countless hours of downtime.