Migrating Large-Scale Services to the Cloud

This book reveals the technical challenges and successful implementation details of migrating MSN, Microsoft’s consumer content portal--a business with 450 million worldwide users--into the Cloud. Following a technique long used in aviation, medicine, and other fields, MSN’s Chief Technical Officer, Eric Passmore, describes the set of release, deployment, monitoring, and mitigation checklists used to build cloud services supporting hundreds of millions of users on Azure, Microsoft’s Public Cloud.

An undertaking of this scale--involving services supported by a large team of engineers--involves unique challenges and risks. This book demonstrates through personal experience how to cut through the theory and provides checklists as a surprisingly simple antidote to the competing methodologies.

This book works at two levels.

• At a fundamental level, businesses need to be successful in the cloud if they want to seize new opportunities and transform their business to compete successfully. This book provides a framework for success by identifying the "hidden" work as part of moving to the cloud.

• At a more practical, level there is an incredible hunger for simple to follow, "how-to" information on Cloud migration. This book is a reference guide to reduce risk and achieve success without requiring the busy reader to wade through theory.

It contains simple to follow, "how-to" information on cloud migration. It is a reference guide to achieving success, and any team can modify these tasks to fit the needs of their own organization.

本書揭示了將微軟的消費者內容門戶網站MSN（擁有4.5億全球用戶）遷移到雲端的技術挑戰和成功實施細節。MSN的首席技術官Eric Passmore描述了一套針對Azure（微軟的公共雲）上支持數億用戶的雲服務所使用的發布、部署、監控和緩解檢查清單，這是航空、醫學和其他領域長期以來使用的技術。

這項規模龐大的工作涉及由大型工程師團隊支持的服務，面臨獨特的挑戰和風險。本書通過個人經驗展示了如何突破理論，並提供檢查清單作為競爭方法論的出人意料的簡單解藥。

本書在兩個層面上發揮作用。

在基本層面上，企業需要在雲端取得成功，才能抓住新機遇並成功轉型。本書通過確定作為遷移到雲端的一部分的“隱藏”工作，提供了成功的框架。

在更實際的層面上，對於雲端遷移的簡單易懂的“如何”信息需求非常強烈。本書是一本參考指南，以降低風險並實現成功，而無需讀者閱讀理論。

本書包含了關於雲端遷移的簡單易懂的“如何”信息。它是實現成功的參考指南，任何團隊都可以根據自己組織的需求修改這些任務。

這本書適合以下讀者：
- 在雲端部署服務或考慮遷移到雲端的技術專業人士。
- DevOps和雲服務領域的專業人士需要這些技能來在當前工作中取得成功或提升職業發展。