The recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas saw the release of several new AWS services for security. Some of these announcements such as AWS Web Application Firewall and AWS Inspector seemed to take many in the security press and blogosphere by surprise. Cloud-native security companies like Evident.io however, weren’t surprised by these announcements. In fact, AWS […]
Alert Logic Cloud Insight brings cloud-based security to your cloud infrastructure
One of the primary driving forces behind DevOps is its fluidity. There is a domino-effect that cascades from the developers who create the apps to the IT admins who deploy and administer the apps to the individuals who download and use the apps and back again. Traditional security can’t keep pace so Alert Logic created […]
Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring
As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring capabilities. Librato, a San Francisco-based provider of Amazon AWS applications performance monitoring (APM) services, claims that it is finding favor among the rapidly […]
DevOps fast food: Chef on the AWS marketplace,
News from the AWS Summit in NYC today is that Chef is now available as a one click install on AWS via the AWS marketplace. While the ability to use Chef on AWS is not new (it is the leading configuration management tool on AWS), being on the marketplace makes both install and billing a […]
The Last One That Transformed the Future
The headline made her yelp for joy. A year into the future of D-Chip, on a crisp August morning, Phoebe opened the newspaper and swiped to the technology section on her iPad. What she saw was riveting: D-Chip reborn as a star in wearable computing. She immediately thought of the article Marc Andreessen wrote on […]
The One Where All the Deployments Stall
In the first episode of the DevOps story, DChip CEO Phoebe gave Chandler an ultimatum to move out of AWS into their datacenter on OpenStack. Does Chandler succeed? Read on to find out… Fast forward two weeks since that fateful night. Chandler is preparing for yet another leadership call. It’s deja vu, with the same […]
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Amazon has packed a box full of services and covered nearly every aspect in making cloud a smooth experience for developers to put up exceedingly operational and structurally complex applications on AWS. Large numbers of cloud-based systems feel the dire need of or dependency on sending out emails on a subscription basis to end users. But it is […]
Composable Environments for Continuous Delivery
The Continuous Deployment model discussed below requires some very specific properties for its platform substrate. Currently AWS is the the only environment that supports all the features needed to implement this. So when we start talking about implementation details in this, and future articles, we will be targeting AWS. The title of this article is […]
The One Where All Hell Breaks Loose
Don’t you love a good story? This one is a DevOps story in a fictional enterprise. It’s the kind of story you’ve seen replayed countless times in large organizations. So settle in for a read. The backstory DChip Tech is a semiconductor company. They’re in the business of making chips for wearable computing since acquiring […]
Optimize your spend on AWS through Reserved Instances
Over the last few years Amazon has gradually raised its compute capacity and provided the user with a set of advanced analytical and structural services. For each service, you can expand precisely for the amount of resources you actually need and shall pay for each resource usage at the end of each month. In the […]