Opinion Now that cloud vendors are delivering features constantly, which are backed with hard data and with good specs, the question which comes to mind is: shall we continue to measure, as we did in the days of the data centre, or shall we blindly trust the vendor and save ourselves plenty of time and duplicated effort?
This is a question I asked myself some time ago – and it has taken me some...
Chaos engineering can be defined as experiments over a distributed system at scale, which increases the confidence that the system will behave as desired and expected under undesired and unexpected conditions.
The concept was popularised initially by Netflix and its Chaos Monkey approach. As the company put it as far back as 2010: "The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and...
One of the most important but often missed steps in having a reliable infrastructure is disaster recovery (DR). Surprisingly, most companies decide either to not implement DR or to implement it halfway. Here, I intend to explore common terms and understandings in disaster recovery; how to leverage the cloud, different types, the plan and important considerations, as well as the economic impact.
Regional vs. zone/domain DRDR can be implemented at regional or zone/domain level,...
Cloud architectures are used broadly nowadays; the cloud is a plethora of amazing alternatives in terms of services and solutions. However, with great power comes great responsibility, and the cloud presents itself as a place where failure can and eventually will occur. Thus, consequently, it will spread upon the entire architecture fast, possibly causing massive outages that can leave a business on its knees.
Okay, that’s not an overly optimistic scenario – more likely...
Nowadays, it is increasingly easier to lose one’s self in dashboards, visualisation tools, nice graphics, and all sorts of button-like approaches to cloud computing. Since the last decade, UX work has improved tenfold; nevertheless, there is a side that usually goes unnoticed unless extremely necessary. That side belongs to application user interfaces (APIs).
An API constitutes a set of objects, methods and functions that allows the user to build scripts, or even big...
Today, most companies are using continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) in one form or another – and this is of significance due to various reasons:
It increases the quality of the code base and the testing of that code base It greatly increases team collaboration It reduces the time in which new features reach the production environment It reduces the number of bugs that in turn reach the production environmentGranted, these reasons apply if – and only if –...
Can orchestration be considered a better alternative to provisioning and configuration management, especially in the case of cloud-native applications? We can look at this from a variety of angles; comparing against data centre-oriented solutions; differentiating orchestration of infrastructure (in the cloud and out of the cloud) versus containers (focusing mostly on cloud), as well as looking at best practices under different scenarios.
It’s worth noting here that this topic...
Today, the cloud is where everyone wants to be; there is no place like it, and nothing makes your clients happier. Okay, that may be a bit of a stretch – but it’s also fair to say that not everyone can dive into the cloud with their current architecture. Many times, it takes a complete re-engineering process in order to carry a company – or even a simple product – into any cloud.
Here are three areas to think about to ensure you do not carry out a disastrous...
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