DevOps in the Cloud
12 Tips for Managing Your Multi-Cloud Environment
Brian Wheeler | | app monitoring, cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud management platform, continous deployment, deploying apps, deploying apps to multiple clouds, devops, hybrid cloud, monitoring, Multi-cloud, server latencyNo single cloud vendor has the perfect solution for your unique business situation. The only way to maximize the benefits of cloud services to your business is by dealing with several cloud ...
8 Ways to Focus on Cloud Software Security
contributor | | audits, cloud, Cloud Security, compliance, continual compliance, cyberthreats, hackers, web applicationsCloud Software Security Examined Cloud software security is critically important. Take, for example, health care: Doctors and other healthcare professionals are one of the biggest users of cloud software, yet recent studies ...
Mesos Usage Survey: Big Clusters, Big Workloads
Mesosphere, purveyors of DC/OS, recently released a survey of Mesos users focused on Mesos deployment information. There were some interesting results, and a few things I wish they’d dug a little deeper ...
Why DevOps Needs Cloudified NPM
One of the three “ways”—or principles that DevOps guru Gene Kim articulates as defining DevOps—is amplifying feedback loops. One of the key ways that Ops contributes to this amplification is by implementing ...
Moving to the Cloud? Consider These Questions
contributor | | cloud, cloud migration, compliance, line-of-business, service level agreement, visbilityThe cloud is going mainstream. That’s the word from a recent Cisco Systems-sponsored study, which found that more than two-thirds of organizations are using the cloud to “help drive business outcomes”—a whopping ...
PyMongo Pointers: How to Make Robust and Highly Available Mongo Queries
In today’s clusters made of commodity servers, failures are the norm. Having your code fail because one data node happened to be down when you were querying it is frustrating and no ...
Azure vs. AWS for the Enterprise
Sharone Zitzman | | Amazon Web Services, cloud services, enterprise, hybrid cloud, IaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Microsoft Azure, PaaS, platform-as-a-service, public cloudIn a previous post we discussed Azure & OpenStack, the less-explored hybrid cloud, and we thought we’d segue on the hybrid cloud theme, and follow up with an additional post focusing on ...
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 ...
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 ...
Taming 2 Cloud App Performance Enemies
Brian Wheeler | | app monitoring, cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud management platform, continous deployment, deploying apps, deploying apps to multiple clouds, devops, monitoring, server latencyWhenever you hear the words “the network’s slow today,” or, even worse, “the network’s down,” you know somebody miscalculated. It may have been the person who decided to buy the wrong hardware, ...
Best Practices for User Management Models in AWS
Sudhi Seshachala | | Autonomous Model, AWS, billing, IAM, Multiple Master Hierarchical Model, Single Master Hierarchical Model, user managementAmazon Web Services (AWS) gives organizations the flexibility of using several different methods for managing user accounts. In this article, we will take a look at some of the best user account ...
Multi-Cloud: The Danger of Data Lock-In
Enterprises rarely think about cloud portability issues before transferring large amounts of data onto a cloud service provider such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform. They were likely to ...
