Live panel webinar: Bringing innovation to the edge with the alternative cloud

This free live webinar takes place on Wednesday 22 September | 2pm ET ABOUT THE WEBINAR

Developers have long heard about the benefits of edge computing: lower latency for applications, better bandwidth and cost efficiencies, the ability to put points of presence closer to end-users, and more. The edge opens a new wave of opportunity for developer innovation.In this webinar, you’ll learn how alternative cloud providers are helping developers build for the edge faster, easier, and...

15 September 2021 | Developers

Cloud and Cyber Security Expo 2021: COVID-19, development security, and risk vs. reward

A graphic of a padlock representing cybersecurity.

An Allied Market Research (AMR) forecast has shown that the global cloud services market will rake in $555 billion in revenues this year. 

This indicates a 17.5% overall growth rate for the cloud computing industry from the previous year. There’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud adoption around the globe and, with it, organisations’ cybersecurity risks have also been ramped up.

The Cloud and Cyber Security Expo 2021, hosted this week in...

9 September 2021 | Adoption

Ridge is bringing full public cloud capabilities to local data centres

For years, data centres and managed service providers have provided customers with the most up-to-date capabilities and services.

But the shift from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings has put hyperscalers in the driver’s seat of the cloud computing market. They offer the managed services that are the building blocks for modern, cloud native applications. 

A better fit

While the hyperscale public cloud model is...

9 July 2021 | Cloud Transformation Congress

How to thrive in a cloud-native culture – outside the cloud

It is no contradiction to say that being ‘cloud-native’ has not much to do with cloud computing. There is an idea that cloud is a place, a suite of technologies or services that run somewhere in data centres. But the cloud is not a place; it is a way of working. A culture. 

But what does culture really mean in the context of cloud? American sociologist Ron Westrum defined organisational culture as “the organisation’s pattern of response to the problems and...

27 May 2021 | Applications

KubeCon Europe roundup: Key developments for Kubernetes on the edge

Kubernetes (K8s) is the key component in the data centres modernising and adopting cloud-native development architecture to deliver applications using containers. Capabilities such as orchestrating VMs and containers together make Kubernetes the go-to platform for modern application infrastructure adopters. Telecom operators are also using Kubernetes to orchestrate their applications in a distributed environment involving many edge nodes.

But due to the large scale of telco...

14 May 2021 | Applications

AWS EKS vs. ECS vs. Fargate: Which offers the best managed Kubernetes?

To make Kubernetes work at scale, you need a container orchestration tool that automates the management, deployment and scaling of your clusters. 

If you’re running Kubernetes on AWS, you can choose from several options: 

Elastic Container Service (ECS)Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) AWS Fargate

Which one is the best match for your workloads that helps to reduce your AWS bill? Read on to find out.

What is Elastic Container Service...

13 May 2021 | AWS

Do techies need financial skills to avoid overspend in the cloud? Introducing… DevSecFinOps

An angry CFO with an unexpected $50,000 invoice on their desk may not be one of the intended outcomes of a cloud migration project. After all, isn’t the move supposed to save you money?

However, this scenario isn’t uncommon among enterprises that move from the on-premise environment that they have become accustomed to.

It goes without saying that organisations running their systems in a data centre are typically concerned with network and infrastructure issues such...

7 May 2021 | Architecture

Breaking the top five myths around chaos engineering

If the only exposure you’ve had to chaos engineering is Chaos Monkey and some flashy blog headlines, it’s easy to paint the whole endeavour as reckless. After all, testing in production is an internet meme, and arguing for it makes for an attractive story. It turns out, however, to be a double-edged sword since a lot of people still associate chaos engineering with extra risk - yet  the premise of the practice is, in fact, all about understanding and mitigating risk.

Myth #1:...

28 April 2021 | Architecture

Extract: Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation: Understanding the principles

Editor's note: This is an exclusive extract from Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation, by Jamie Dobson, Pini Reznik and Michelle Gienow, published by O'Reilly Media. The book is currently available for free for a limited period of time. You can find out more here.

Cloud native is a lot to wrap your head around: it’s an architecture, a tech stack, an approach to software development and delivery, and a complete paradigm shift all rolled into one!...

27 April 2021 | Architecture

Boris Krumrey, UiPath: On RPA for digital transformation and the fully-automated enterprise

UiPath, a provider of robotic process automation (RPA) software, has had a stellar few years. The company has placed third in the two most recent Forbes Cloud 100 lists, ranking the most prestigious privately-held cloud computing companies. The company won't be there this year, as it looks to an IPO - but plenty of innovation remains.

Ahead of the company's participation at Digital Transformation Week from April 20-22, CloudTech spoke with Boris Krumrey, global VP of automation...

20 April 2021 | Developers