The Kong Man

di Chinmoy Mukherjee (Autore)

Chinmoy Mukherjee, 2025

The novella centers on Vincent Krishna, an accomplished IT veteran with decades of experience in both cloud (AWS, Azure) and on-premise infrastructure, who takes on a formidable challenge in the volatile Melbourne energy sector. Hired by The Energy Authority (TEA) as an Infrastructure Architect for a six-month contract, Vincent is tasked with an impossible goal: transforming the Authority's "meager, rusting on-premise setup" into a powerhouse that rivals the infinite scalability and resilience of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This mission is immediately fraught with crushing constraints, as he is limited to a maximum of only three virtual machines (VMs) per component while being demanded to deliver the operational excellence, zero-trust security, and fault tolerance of a massive public cloud ecosystem. At the technical core of this impossible project is the Kong Gateway, an open-source API gateway built on Nginx. It is entrusted with managing a torrent of market data and satisfying a staggering list of seventy stringent Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), including self-healing auto-upgrades, demand-driven auto-scaling, and zero-downtime deployments. Vincent understands that the true magic of AWS lies in its "breathing ecosystem" of elastic resources and multi-Availability Zone failover, which cannot be replicated on aging local hardware with just a few VMs. He realizes that while AWS offers seamless failover, his on-premise setup guarantees manual intervention and inevitable downtime, exposing the vast chasm between cloud-native promise and on-premise reality. Faced with this insurmountable gap, Vincent pivots to survival mode, leaning on his skill as a translator of impossible demands. His strategy relies on a clever dance of workshops, dazzling Proofs of Concepts (PoCs), and sophisticated presentations designed to buy him time. He finds inspiration for this approach in a science fiction novella, coining the term "digient"—a fragile, temperamental digital entity requiring careful nurturing. The novella, "The Kong Man," thus becomes a compelling tale of one man's ethical tightrope walk with ambition and impossibility, using the pursuit of a flawless API gateway as a metaphor to explore the long, dark shadows of on-premise reality under the shining light of the public cloud.

• Autore: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232453473