Demystifying The Cloud, a look at Hyperscale Computing From a Hacker Perspective - Nick Fury

Lets face it, the first time you heard the word "cloud" you knew it was a buzzword and if you didn't then you can hand in your hacker card now. This talk will move beyond the buzzwords in an effort to demystify the world of hyperscale computing. Like it or not, you use Google and Amazon's services so wouldn't you like to know how they work?

The goal of this talk is to educate others in the community about how these large scale cloud operations actually work. It might make you trust them more or it might make you trust them less but at least you'll be more educated. The talk will be a high level talk focusing on terminology, infrastructure, security implications, general concepts, and more. Beer will be drunk and examples will be given. The talk will also go into the future (with a crystal ball though, not a time machine) and how these operators are impacting smaller companies that might not use cloud services today.

[MarshallMassengill]

Yeah, I got the PUE for Google wrong... more like 1.1 and lower at this point.  I got few other things wrong too.  If anyone wants the slides then get in touch.