The rise of microservices as a means of developing and delivering software value faster is clearly on the rise. Containers have skyrocketed from a fringe technology to a mainstream imperative and organizations are scrambling to jump on the microservices bandwagon. Before you rush out to embrace microservices, though, there are a few things you should […]
Microservices define the next era of IT
There is a lot of focus on DevOps and container technologies these days. Both are very strong trends in IT on their own, but each is also proof of a larger shift in IT culture to a microservices architecture. A new report from IDC titled “The Emergence of Microservices as a New Architectural Approach to […]
Top 5 Anti-ESB Arguments for DevOps Teams.
Unix and Mac. Developers are always in combat. My last verbal combat was a “discussions” around ESB and Microservices. They are fun because both supporters tend to have very strong opinions about what they think is best and both want to fight each other. I recently got involved in one of those discussion about ESB […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Monitoring Containers and Microservices
Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked him what themes were resonating with attendees this year. For this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Trevor briefly illustrates some current problems with […]
Launching Applications to the Cloud – It’s all about Scalability and Speed
It is not hyperbolic to state that today’s web services deal in hyperscale realms when one considers stats such as The Amazon cloud can handle up to 1 million transactions per second during peak loads Facebook was managing 890 million daily active users on average for December 2014 There are 500 million tweets sent per day […]
Top 3 DevOps Practices for Operational Stability
Operational Stability is one of the main concerns in organizations. Especially some larger organization struggle to get a more stable IT landscape. Too often it’s political discussions that are preventing them from doing something about it. Organizations that have DevOps teams in place can just smile because they are enabled to be in control of […]
What’s hot with DevOps
DevOps as a movement to transform people, technology, processes for higher business value is here to stay. It’s disrupting organizational processes replacing the old with the new. Command and control IT, a historical approach to regulating tech top-down, is trending toward decentralization thanks to DevOps. Software source control is another such case. We saw Git take on the source control […]
DevOps Teams: Containers Will Help You Become Future Ready
Container frameworks are emerging as a superior choice to create, manage, and run distributed applications in a scalable and secure fashion. Docker’s growth is testimony to the fact. There are 100 million downloads of the Docker Engine, 75,000 Dockerized applications, 770 contributors, and 50,000 third-party projects on GitHub using Docker in less than two years. […]
3 golden rules of microservices deployments
As a developer, you value the principles of SOA. You aspire to build applications as a set of consumable services via endpoints. Remember how Amazon used SOA to build the AWS platform and how Google is emulating AWS? However, not all is hunky-dory in the SOA world. Developing is one thing but running, managing, and […]
What DevOps Needs to Know About Microservices
In this fast-moving, immature space, expect to spend cycles assessing where the greatest value lies for each team and the business as a whole. The term “microservices” is popping up everywhere in software development circles. Indeed, microservices are frequently touted as The Next Big Thing in terms of how to write applications to avoid the […]