There is no shortage of advice out there about how to secure modern, cloud-native workloads. By now, most developers and IT engineers who work with cloud-native deployments have heard all of the mantras about DevSecOps, shift-left security, multi-layer defenses and dynamic baselining (to name just some of the key concepts that are driving IT security […]
Why AWS Cost Optimization Is About More than Saving Money
Why is it important to track and monitor cloud costs? The obvious answer is it helps you save money—and everyone wants to save money. Yet, cost plays a much larger role in your cloud journey. If you think about cost only in terms of how much you are paying and what you are getting in […]
Optimizing AWS Performance Over the Long Term
Ask most folks how to optimize performance on AWS, and they’ll talk about things such as autoscaling and rightsizing. Those tools are certainly part of an effective AWS performance optimization strategy. On their own, however, they are not enough to guarantee performance and reliability over the long haul. That’s because tools and processes such as […]
Why Integrated Infrastructure Is the Key to IT Success
At first glance, your IT infrastructure might seem like your house’s basement. It supports everything, but you don’t pay much attention to it or spend much time or energy trying to make it beautiful. Instead, you treat it as a generic component and lavish your attention on other parts of your IT landscape (or your […]
Operational Excellence and the Success of Software Deployments
When we talk about best practices for software reliability, the conversation tends to focus on optimizing the applications themselves and the infrastructure that hosts them. The driving idea is reliability must be baked into system architectures and infrastructure from the beginning. That’s certainly true. But by focusing too much on the design and implementation of […]
What It Really Takes to Build a Reliable App
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these days to boast about how many nines of uptime they guarantee. To be sure, uptime is one component of delivering a reliable application […]
How Organizations Benefit from AWS App Patterns
As a startup, an organization thrives by breaking rules, challenging the status quo and standing for all that is against the norm. The same rules don’t apply once the same organization grows, matures, becomes popular, gains a long list of clients and expands to a global footprint. With scale and growth comes the need for […]
3 Examples of AI at Work in DataOps
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making all the difference between innovators and laggards in the global marketplace. Yet, implementing a state-of-the-art DataOps operation involves a long-term commitment to putting in place the right people, processes and tools that will deliver results. In this post, we look at three organizations that are doing cutting-edge work in the […]
Tips for Migrating and Managing Data Workloads in the Cloud
Unless you are an alien life form who just beamed down from space, you’ve heard all about the why of moving data workloads to the cloud. The cloud is a more scalable, more flexible, more available and possibly less expensive solution for storing and processing data. What is not always obvious is the how of […]
Application Performance Management for DataOps
Over the years, application performance management (APM) tools have been utilized typically to measure and monitor the performance of software such as web applications. They do so by tracking such things as request response times and error messages, thus providing relevant data to be analyzed by the DevOps team, which then can make the appropriate […]