While reading the book “Cloud Native Infrastructure”, and on getting to page 34-35, I read the words “In July of 2014 an open source tool that embraced the idea of a higher level abstraction for infrastructure as code was released. The tool, called Terraform, has been fantastically successful. It was released at the perfect time, when configuration management was well established and public cloud adoption was on the rise. Users began to see the limitations of the tools for the new environment, and Terraform was ready to address their needs.”
This made me pause to think, when did I first hear about the cloud? In retrospect, I was surprised to recall that sometime in 2013/14 there was a talk around Microsoft Azure back in FUNAAB.
I can’t accurately remember the hall we used for the event, but oh, I remember there were Azure stickers.
(Somebody spoke about building a news app by consuming APIs. This must have been a tech conference, no idea)
There was this thing about free Azure credits for students, however, the cloud was vague for a lot of us at the time. Folks just wanted to learn to write code and build apps. There was no immediate benefits for these young undergrads who at the time were more in need of internet data to download C++ and PHP tutorials. To us, the cloud was way ahead of it’s time.
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