A guide to conquering cloud migration challenges
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Pandora, the first mortal woman, was created by the gods as part of Zeus’s plan to punish humanity for Prometheus’s theft of fire [1].
She was gifted with beauty and intelligence, and Zeus sent her to Epimetheus, Prometheus’s brother. For the wedding gift, Zeus gave Pandora a jar (often interpreted as a “box”) and warned her never to open it [1].
Despite warnings, Pandora was curious. She opened the jar, releasing the world’s bringers of evils—leaving only hope trapped inside [2].
Since then, “to open a Pandora’s Box” has been synonymous with doing or starting something that will cause many unforeseen problems [3].
Comparing this to my professional life, the only occasion I felt like I had opened “Pandora’s Box” was when I began working on a data cloud migration/greenfield project several years ago.
And the funny thing is that this thought hasn’t changed years later, even after working on two additional and almost identical projects.
Not only did I experience new “bringers of evil” with every new data cloud migration project, but I also…