Architectural top 5 cloud challenges and solutions for cloud ready Enterprise applications
This is a workshop to explore top 5 cloud architectural challenges. Come prepared with open mind and zeal to solve customer requirements. Workshop is divided into first the real world problems. Later we will discuss possible solutions for each of these problems.
Cloud computing is adopted in all major Enterprises. In this talk we will explore top challenges in Cloud design and deployments. Firstly, we will explore cloud challenges with Service Quality and what design principles need to be adopted to be able to support SLAs in Cloud. Next, Cloud security is a must to be incorporated throughout application development. We will explore Threat Modeling, SOC2 compliance, disaster recovery, and different ways to identify and fix vulnerabilities. Next, we will explore design principles to build support for availability, failover strategies, and downtimes. We will explore ways to design applications, which support <500 ms response time. Next, we will discover how modern cloud enabled applications need to be built using 12 factor application model. Lastly, we will look at how Dockers, Kubernetes, and Mesos DC/OS are helping build scalable Cloud applications.
You can now directly apply your knowledge of architecture principles through this workshop. This will be helpful in enhancing your architect skills with constructive feedback from attendees. You can also come with your organization’s architectural challenges.
This is a workshop to explore top 5 cloud architectural problems. Come prepared with open mind and zeal to solve customer requirements. Workshop is divided into first the real world problems. Later we will discuss possible solutions for each of these problems.
Cloud computing is adopted in all major Enterprises. In this talk we will explore top challenges in Cloud design and deployments. Firstly, we will explore cloud challenges with Service Quality and what design principles need to be adopted to be able to support SLAs in Cloud. Next, Cloud security is a must to be incorporated throughout application development. We will explore Threat Modeling, SOC2 compliance, disaster recovery, and different ways to identify and fix vulnerabilities. Next, we will explore design principles to build support for availability, failover strategies, and downtimes. We will explore ways to design applications, which support <500 ms response time. Next, we will discover how modern cloud enabled applications need to be built using 12 factor application model. Lastly, we will look at how Dockers, Kubernetes, and Mesos DC/OS are helping build scalable Cloud applications.
You can now directly apply your knowledge of architecture principles through this workshop. This will be helpful in enhancing your architect skills with constructive feedback from attendees. You can also come with your organization’s architectural challenges.
About Rohit Bhardwaj
Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce, where he focuses on enterprise AI, agentic systems, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, data platforms, security, and large-scale transformation.
Over his career, Rohit has designed and led complex enterprise platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, microservices, real-time data, API ecosystems, resilient distributed systems, and AI-enabled architectures. His work increasingly focuses on the challenges enterprises face as software evolves from deterministic services to AI-native and agentic systems—particularly around reliability, governance, evidence, security, observability, cost, and safe autonomy.
Rohit is the author of System Design with AI Interview Guide: Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems, published by Apress. The book presents a modern approach to system design covering scalability, distributed systems, AI architecture primitives, security, reliability, economics, agentic systems, and real-world architectures including e-commerce, ride sharing, payments, fraud detection, messaging, video streaming, file storage, and search. (Springer Link)
Book:
Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Zs1twa
Publisher / Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2782-2
O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/system-design-with/9798868827822/
Rohit is also an O’Reilly instructor and a frequent speaker at technology conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, GIDS, and other international events. His talks focus on practical architecture lessons from building and operating complex systems, including AI control planes, trusted agents, inference at scale, evidence-first RAG, AI security, distributed-system failure, and AI-era software architecture.
As a trusted advisor and architecture leader, Rohit works at the intersection of business strategy and deep technical architecture—helping teams translate complex business problems into scalable, resilient, secure, and economically sustainable systems.
Rohit holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson College and graduate-level education in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University.
Connect with Rohit:
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud
X / Twitter: @rbhardwaj1