Building a Cloud Platform: Weapons of War

I've just returned home from a big development build. For the last five months we've been in a secret room racing to get version 1.0 of a cumulonimbus size cloud project out. It wasn't easy. Getting to 1.0 was a real battle because... well, you don't know! Because you weren't there... man!

Now that I am back on civilian soil and fighting off night terrors from the horrors of war, I can reflect on what went well and what when badly. This could be a book in its own right; but for this post I'm going to cover The Weapons of War - or the essential tools needed when building any product or platoon... I mean platform.