Add user examples in To Cloud or Not to Cloud in the When To Cloud chapter

[alexishunzinger]

There is a section in the When To Cloud chapter of the Cookbook dedicated to real user experiences where they had to decide if they were going to use the cloud for their work. We want to compile some (2-3) affirmative cases (To Cloud) and the negative cases (Not to Cloud) that include:

1. Description of project
2. Workload type (CPU intensive, memory, IO, etc.)
3. Challenges encountered – were any overcome?
4. Why the cloud was or was not used
5. Single biggest factor the contributed to your decision?
6. Any other notes

@betolink posted in Pangeo forum to solicit these types of stories from Pangeo users: https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/cloud-use-cases/4007

[brianmapes]

It's a moving target, with different time horizons for different fixes to current hurdles. Happy to help but I wonder if my experiences of last week and last year will be out of date uninterestingly before I can articulate them?

Is "cloud" too vague, do you mean parallelization for Big throughput (which can't be done any other way or place than the cloud), or access for sampling (which an Opendap server either on-prem or cloud suffices)?

[alexishunzinger]

No bites on the Pangeo forum post. Brian makes a good point about experiences being "outdated".

Bring back to group for discussion on how to handle this, or if any larger changes should be made to the When to Cloud page.