Modernizing SQL Server infrastructure means balancing stability, automation and uptime across legacy and modern IT environments.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Comes of Age in 2022
The site reliability engineer (SRE) role is still gathering steam across organizations. In January 2022, LinkedIn listed SRE as the 21st job with the highest global demand throughout the past five years. That’s pretty high for such a specific tech role. And, looking to the future, it appears the SRE practice will only continue to […]
Business Continuity in the Azure Cloud: Understanding the Options
There are numerous ways to assure business continuity for applications running within the Azure cloud via various high availability and disaster recovery provisions. But, selecting the best and most cost-effective provisions for each and every application can be extraordinarily difficult owing to the myriad choices available. At best, making poor choices during development can waste […]
Hosting Scalable WordPress on AWS
Do you own or manage a WordPress site? Is it complex, with a lot of traffic? I’m going to show you the ideal architecture to host a highly available and scalable WordPress site on AWS. This blog is intended to show a distributed architecture in AWS for WordPress CMS websites. You will be able to […]
In Determining DevOps issues, Sometimes It’s the Process
It is pretty much standard DevOps process that when a server instance starts having problems, you simply kill it and start another. This is in line with the idea that servers are cattle and there isn’t a ton of difference between them. But it creates a problem that no amount of CI/CD or automated provisioning […]
DevOps answers to high availability
Everyone want’s their application SLA to be 99.99999%. However with some applications it is not a desire, it is mandatory. The Consequences of failure in mission critical applications are drastic. And with commercial applications damaging, it is reputation, and internal support costs.