Infrastructure Strategy and Technology Selection Questions
Setting technical direction for infrastructure and deciding what to build on. Covers infrastructure vision and long-term roadmap, modernization and technical-debt strategy, platform decisions, and organizational and governance considerations, alongside the decision framework for adopting or retiring technology: build-versus-buy-versus-cloud-versus-on-premises trade-offs, vendor and platform evaluation, technology-portfolio rationalization, requirements-driven service selection, and weighing total cost of ownership and risk. The leadership-altitude discipline of directing an infrastructure estate over time and justifying its major technology choices to stakeholders.
Your company must choose between a managed SaaS logging/analytics service and building an in-house logging platform. Create an evaluation framework: list technical requirements (ingestion, retention, query patterns), non-functional requirements (SLAs, compliance), cost model (TCO over 3 years), operational staffing, failure modes, migration complexity, and a concise recommendation structure you'd present to the CTO.
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