Last night I had the pleasure of watching a subject matter expert explain the complexities of datacentre architecture for application delivery. At an event in Brewbot Belfast Axel Fontaine (http://axelfontaine.com/) covered the various aspects of moving to Cloud in entirety. The calibre of the presenter was obvious as his day job is teaching the approach to infrastructure and delivery. The talk was very informative and useful as he explained his own experiences and the real world practices that you need to take account of when planning an application that will be delivered through cloud services.
The event was organised through Bash! and all the feedback I heard were very favourable. Once again a great event and well worth attending these if you are in the vicinity.
Update – The slides are available here and are well worth a look !!