To have a successful DevOps transformation, teams on both the development and the operations side need fast storage infrastructure and high-performing tools to maximize its performance and the people that work with it. Over the last decade, a major operational problem in on-premises enterprise data centers have emerged, as the fundamental mismatch between the infrastructure […]
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 […]
Deep Art of Scaling for Cloud Environments, Part 2
In Part One of our two-part series on scaling for cloud environments, we looked at some of important factors for scaling and best practices for code storage. Let’s continue the discussion. Auto Scaling for Next-Generation Applications There are a few very good-looking cloud hosting service providers that provide the features mentioned in Part One: AWS, […]
Deep Art of Scaling for Cloud Environments, Part 1
The number of resources to scale an application are abundant, but every application has its own challenges to scale successfully, and the solution to this problem doesn’t come handy. This two-part article focuses on the best approaches to build a scalable application, software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, mobile app, or WordPress-, Drupal- or Magento-based website. The scope […]
Backup and Recovery of MongoDB, Part 2
This blog is the second in a two-part series on backup and recovery for MongoDB. In one of my previous blogs, I covered why companies require both replication and backup for enterprise grade data protection. And in the first part of this blog series, I discussed the existing solutions for backup and recovery of MongoDB […]
3 Tips to Avoid Painting Your DevOps into a Scalability Corner
When everything is firing on all cylinders, DevOps can be awesome. Teams work together seamlessly. Routine tasks are automated. Continuous delivery is continuously integrated, continuously tested, continuously deployed and continuously monitored. All is well, and right with the world—unless your DevOps needs begin exceeding the capacity of the platforms and tools you depend on. Scalability […]