Building an Online Bakery Infrastructure: A Pre-Cloud Era Journey 🌐🍰

SriSri
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Sri's Story: Starting an Online Bakery the Traditional Way

Meet Sri, a young entrepreneur with a dream of starting her own bakery. From the bustling city, she set out on a journey to turn her dream into reality. Here's how she did it in the pre-Cloud era:

  • 🌳 Dreaming Big: Sri envisioned her online bakery, but she faced the challenge of high upfront costs💸 and complex infrastructure🏗️. She knew she needed servers to host her website, a database to store customer information, and a way to deliver her products to customers' doorsteps.

  • 🏭 Setting Up Infrastructure: Without the cloud, Sri had to buy physical servers and storage devices to host her website. She rented space in a data center🏢 to house her servers, which required a significant upfront investment💰. She also had to hire IT professionals to set up and maintain the infrastructure.

  • 🌐 Navigating the Digital World: Sri registered her bakery's domain name through a domain registrar like GoDaddy or Namecheap. She manually configured DNS to link the domain name to her website's IP address, ensuring that customers could find her bakery online.

  • 📦 Handling Content Delivery: To deliver her website's content to users, Sri had to rely on traditional methods. She manually managed content distribution, ensuring that images and product descriptions were uploaded to her servers and delivered to users' browsers when they visited her website.

  • 🍰 Baking Ideas: Throughout her journey, Sri never stopped innovating. She focused on baking delicious treats🎂 while managing the complexities of her traditional infrastructure. She hired a team of developers to build her website, and they worked tirelessly to ensure it met her customers' needs.

  • 🔧 Managing Tools: Sri's developer team used developer tools like text editors and version control systems to write and manage her website's code. They manually deployed updates to her servers and relied on manual testing to ensure everything worked as expected.

  • 🔒 Ensuring Security: Security was a top priority for Sri's team. They implemented firewalls🛡️ and encryption to protect her website and customer data. They also managed user identities and permissions manually, ensuring that only authorized users could access sensitive information.

  • 📊 Analyzing Performance: Sri's developer team collected data on her website's performance manually. They used spreadsheets to track sales, customer feedback, and website traffic. Analyzing this data helped them make informed decisions about her bakery's growth📈.

  • 📱 Reaching Customers: Sarah didn't have a mobile app for her bakery, but she relied on traditional marketing methods like email newsletters📧 and word-of-mouth💬 to reach her customers. Her developer team manually sent order confirmations and updates🔄 to customers via email.

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    We will introduce the Sri with Cloud Guru and helps in Changing the both financial and hectic workloads along with passionate baking

To be Continued....

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