When I first started migrating companies to the cloud (about seven years ago), companies would ask me, “How come the app isn’t scaling? How come users are still complaining about the slowness?” I would explain that the cloud enables auto-scaling, but you still have to make sure your app can scale in the cloud. In […]
Application Development: Ripe for Encryption
As businesses look to accelerate application innovation and move more and more workflows to the cloud, their needs can be at odds with the need to secure the data. This article will outline current challenges faced by application developers to protect data in this new cloud/DevOps environment. It will also provide insights on how to eliminate the burdens […]
DevOps Needs a New Cloud Solution for Best Practices
Imagine this scenario: You are a company building modern software which is a key driver of your business. To support this, you have grown your infrastructure organically over time by adding servers, storage, networks, security, virtualization software, monitoring, alerting and analytics tools. You have also added a plethora of other middleware, databases, messaging and operating systems that your developers need […]
Database Bottlenecks: The Hidden Cause of App Slow Downs?
Performance problems can cripple mission-critical business apps. If you are lucky enough, your solution could be as easy as adding more WAN bandwidth, a few extra servers or a content delivery network, but the real problem arises when your database becomes your biggest bottleneck. When performance issues adversely impact the applications that keep your business […]
How Are You Getting Your Cloud On?
With 71 percent of CIOs report having a cloud-first strategy, it’s clear enterprises are doing something. But it’s also clear that no two organizations are in the same place. While some organizations have gone “all in” by moving their production workloads to the cloud, most organizations are adopting a hybrid approach in which they are: […]
Why Your Company Needs An Automated Infrastructure
IT teams and software have started to embrace automation across all levels of the development life cycle, from planning and testing to deployment and maintenance. With the advent of DevOps, and the cloud, it’s now entirely possible for technical teams to spin up new environments in a matter of minutes instead of days. The process […]
Avoid Crashes: 5 Best Practices for Load Testing
Demanding customer expectations and the rapid distribution of information across social media have made website and applications crashes an off-limits path for today’s companies and organizations. Crashes resulting from traffic spikes cause immediate and long-term loss of sales, as well as tarnishing the brand name. When servers or websites go down during highly anticipated events […]
When DevOps Disrupts DevOps
As longtime readers of my blogs will know, one of my hobbies—when not writing about or playing with technology—is modeling. There is a similarity between quality tech work and quality modeling, but the brain power involved in modeling is much less, leaving me time to think about tech issues or listen to audiobooks (when I’m […]
When Bad Things Happen to Good Clouds: Why You Need a Recovery Plan
Amazon S3 storage service recently experienced a widespread five-hour outage in its East Coast availability zone. Many next-generation consumer and business applications rely on a cloud storage, so the S3 outage quickly cascaded and temporarily crippled organizations from Netflix to Slack. Cloud outages like this are normal, and notable because they affect so many businesses. The […]
Backup: Not So Easy in Certain Environments
We discussed how backup needs to be reinvented for a new era cloud-native applications, and what you should look for in a modern database backup and recovery solution. But even if you scrap the traditional approach to back up and write scripts to handle the task, backup and recovery of next-generation applications and databases (Apache […]
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