The document discusses why startups need automated infrastructures. It explains that an automated infrastructure allows basic services to operate largely without human intervention, saving time and increasing efficiency, scalability, flexibility and reducing costs. It provides an example of automating the launch of a fictional startup called MonkeyNews using tools like Puppet, EC2, iClassify and Capistrano. This allows the infrastructure to dynamically scale and issues to be resolved quickly through automation.

1. Why Startups Need Automated Infrastructures Adam Jacob Senior Partner HJK Solutions [email_address] .com

4. What is an “Automated Infrastructure”?

8. Why is it so important?

12. MonkeyNews - A Case Study All the hottest Monkey news, as selected by your monkey-loving peers! Courtesy National Geographic

14. MonkeyNews on Launch Day

15. Steps to Launch

18. Steps to Launch - OS Install

25. Puppet Example - sudo

26. Puppet Example - sudo

32. Launch Day

41. Review

43. HJK does this for a living. But you can ask me how to do it for free. :) Adam Jacob +1 (206) 508-4759 [email_address]

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