All around you hear people taking a firm stand - whether it is pro-Cloud or against it. Almost like "would you prefer Chocolate or Vanilla ice cream?" Well, I like both! On this talk, I would like to suggest a more inclusive approach, sharing Outbrain journey in the attempt to enjoy both worlds.

1. Orit Yaron
VP Cloud Platform
orit@outbrain.com
I Want It All –
Go Hybrid

2. +800M
Unique Monthly
Global Audience
+300B
Recommendations
Served Monthly
6000
Servers Across 3
Data Center

3. +250
Production
Services
+200
Deployments to
Production / Day
Self Serve
&
Full
Automation

4. 4
Why?

5. 5

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Public Cloud
• Cheaper?
• Multi region Infrastructure?
• Vendor lock-in

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Why Do I Have to Choose?

8. 8
Advantages
• Elasticity
• Ad-hoc Projects
• Productivity & Business Growth

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Elasticity
• Nature of our business
• Specific workloads

10. 10
Ad-hoc Projects
• No need for upfront investment
• Time to market

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Productivity & Business Growth
• Technology capabilities
• Where do I invest my resources?
• M&A

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Why?

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How Do You start?
• Baby Steps - ”External Projects”
• Ad Hoc research on 600T of data
• Fastly Logs analysis

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Define work methodology

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Where are we Today?
• Production Projects
• Fastly Logs analysis
• Image tagging / NLP
• Hadoop Research Cluster
• M&A…

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Have the ABILITY to CHOSSE

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Thank You!
Questions?
Orit Yaron
orit@outbrain.com