Tolga Tarhan got his start single-handedly running all the technology in his high school. Fast forward to today in which his experience during the dot com bust and incremental steps at various development firms have led him to the belief that the cloud is the ultimate goal of any organization.

On today’s episode of CTO Connection, Tolga shares wisdom and advice on how to find the right mechanisms for your business so you can gradually shift to a cloud native architecture. For Tolga, the key is not “lift and shift,” but making a gradual shift that will enable your company to innovate quickly.

• [01:26] - How Tolga became a technologist and engineering leader
• [04:01] - Specializing in AWS at Rackspace
• [05:55] - Getting started adopting the cloud
• [09:39] - Dealing with problems of scale
• [11:11] - Bringing professional software development to the serverless world
• [13:28] - Experimenting with Serverless Framework
• [20:45] - What are microservices?
• [22:41] - When to consider more than one service
• [26:58] - Talking to clients about resilience
• [28:34] - Observability requirements
• [29:40] - Becoming cloud native

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