Thought Leaders in the Cloud

Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Jonathan Boutelle, cofounder and CTO of Slideshare 

Great interview by  Robert_Duffner with Jonathan Boutelle , cofounder and CTO of Slideshare, a site for the online social sharing of slideshows.
For further reading:  MSDN Blogs Jonathan is a software engineer by training, his interests lie at the intersection of technology, business, and customer experience.  He writes an occasional article on his blog Jon@slideshare

 

In this interview, Robert and Jon discuss:

• The scale of SlideShare (45 million visitors per month)
• Two kinds of expensive missteps with the cloud
• Aligning SaaS revenue with cloud costs
• Concrete examples of the benefits of hybrid architectures
• The higher administrative burden of infrastructure as a service
• The opportunity to build cloud hosted special purpose application services
• Front end complexity and back end cost risks.