Tag: scalability

From One Big System to Many Small Ones: Our Microservices Story
Microservices offer flexibility, but they also introduce additional management complexities. Start small. Monitor everything. Plan for failure. ...

Decentralized Application Development with Mathias Buus Madsen
Mathias Buus Madsen, CEO of Holepunch, joins the conversation to challenge the industry’s heavy reliance on centralized platforms. The tech world increasingly gravitates toward centralization and large data centers, and Mathias advocates ...

From Scalability to Speed: Generative AI has Put Testing on Steroids
The rapid integration of Generative AI in the last few years has shifted the base toward new testing solutions — the next level in the race for AI aptitude ...

The IaC Weight on DevOps’ Shoulders
It’s often challenging to adopt modern DevOps practices around infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Here's how to make the journey smoother ...

Dependability is Crucial for Real-Time Experiences
Millions of people around the world experienced a major disruption after an October 2021 outage saw Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram go offline. A few days prior, the popular workplace collaboration platform, Slack, ...

The New(ish) Complexity
The API economy and microservices architectures, led by Agile and DevOps, have introduced a massive amount of hidden complexity. I call it hidden complexity because we have a tendency in IT to ...

DevOps World: Forget Doc, it’s All About Dev
This year for DevOps World, we’re heading back to the future. Doc Brown won’t be there with his souped-up time machine, but plenty of devs will. As the world is coming to ...

DevOps World 2021: 3 Sessions for Successful Scaling
Your business has grown from a startup of five people to a full-blown organization of 100 ... congrats! But, now what? The practices that worked for a smaller company may have worked ...

The Increased Role of Colocation Providers in Data Centers
You would be hard-pressed to find something more complex than a modern data center. A state-of-the-art building stocked with all the necessary software for a major company might run into billions in ...

DevOps at Scale: Winning Strategy for Modern Enterprises
DevOps is a word that has generated massive interest over the last few years among the software-powered organizations and developers, yet many people don't fully understand what it actually means. One thing ...

Ten Years Later — What Is Cloud Native?
Ever since the term cloud native made its debut in 2010, its usage has grown in popularity. Today cloud native is used as a qualifier for innovative, leading edge applications, platforms and ...

The Difference Between Capacity and Scalability Planning
Not only does the tech industry love terms, we love to make them super nuanced. For example SecOps versus DevSecOps, continuous delivery versus continuous deployment, hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud, etc. These terms ...