I’d like to unpack the architecture of a typical Cloud platform and offer some insights into the patterns and tools from the Cloud-Native ecosystem we can leverage when building one. I think a “Cloud” product is starting to become the foundation that companies rely on to quickly iterate and deliver a wide arrange of services, but the base knowledge for building one is locked away in each siloed implementation. In this talk, I aim to highlight the common design challenges and approaches to help demystify what it means to build a cloud.

The target persona for my talk is somebody who is interested in how to deliver software as a service. Ideally, they’d have an interest in Cloud-Native technology and how it can be applied within SaaS and it’ll help to have a good knowledge of software architecture.

I hope this talk gives the audience inspiration for how they think about delivering their own services and encourages others to share their own approaches to building SaaS publicly so we can all learn from each other. The patterns for building SaaS are largely reusable without giving away any of the secret sauce.