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JP Morgenthal

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JP Morgenthal is an internationally renowned thought leader in the areas of IT transformation, modernization, and cloud computing. JP has served in executive roles within major software companies and technology startups. Areas of expertise include strategy, architecture, application development, infrastructure and operations, cloud computing, DevOps, and integration. He routinely advices C-level executives on the best ways to use technology to derive business value. JP is a published author with four trade publications. Hist most recent is “Cloud Computing: Assessing the Risks”. JP hold both a Masters and Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Hofstra University.

Recent Articles

The Executive’s Guide to Microservices…

Executive Guide to Microservices

The Executive’s Guide to Microservices…

The Executive’s Guide to Microservices: Chapter 1

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Meet Steve. Steve is responsible for a mission-critical application for a very large enterprise. He has a problem: It takes Steve and his team a very long time to make changes to this application and release it to production. Steve has been talking to vendors, consultants and peers about agile software development techniques and DevOps, […]

Welcome to Microservices Journal

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Welcome to Microservices Journal, a community dedicated to the design of microservices-based applications and related technologies. The introduction of microservices into the digital application landscape enables a new level of agility for businesses that adopt this model of design. As with any architectural construct, there are no absolutes; hence, no wrong or right way to […]

Microservices Days coming to a city near you

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Microservices is rapidly becoming a design paradigm for developing software. While there are many benefits to microservices designs, it is more complex than traditional application design. For this reason we are formulating a new community around microservices architecture. This community will explore design issues and the intersection with Mobile/IoT, Containers, Cloud, DevOps and APIs. Microservices […]

SOA vs Microservices

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Some say microservices architecture is proof that SOA is still alive. I contend that microservices architecture replaces SOA due to deficiencies in how SOA has been implemented as well as the original intent. In the mid-1990s there was a surge of investment for implementing enterprise applications to replace the aging homegrown legacy applications. These new […]

The Big DevOps Question: How Do We Get Started?

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Every conversation I have with clients regarding DevOps eventually reaches a point where the client wants to know my recommendations for getting started with a DevOps program. Some have already embarked on a DevOps program, but want me to critique their approach against what I see others doing. Others simply don’t have a clue how […]

Leveraging DevOps to Expose The Entire IT Iceberg

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On September 16th I attended and spoke at a CIO Magazine event in Chicago. These are some of the best events to attend as the audience is typically CIO or senior IT leadership. One of the speakers on the day, Martha Heller, Author of “The CIO Paradox”, presenting on new competencies for the modern CIO, […]

DevOps and Bi-Modal IT

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Can a business have two competing approaches to delivery and operations of their information infrastructure and be successful? If you follow Gartner recommendations, it would seem that bi-modal IT is the way to go. Bi-modal IT has been explained many different ways, but, ultimately, comes down a failure in leadership; allowing a subset of IT […]
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