AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story.
CNCF Survey Predicts Growing Wasm Momentum
A survey of 93 developers conducted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) found more than a quarter (28%) are using WebAssembly (Wasm) in their cloud-native development projects, with another 36% planning to do so during the next six to 12 months. The survey, published this week, is effectively a straw poll that found 42% […]
Introduction to Cloud Custodian
Organizations continue to increase their footprint in the cloud. Yet, applying governance and enforcing policies across multiple cloud environments at scale is a challenging endeavor. Organizations typically have governance policies written in English, but translating them into enforceable code has historically required some custom workarounds. In the same vein as infrastructure-as-code (IaC), DevOps engineers now […]
Why Object Storage is Best for Cloud-Native Apps
A crucial question that plagues cloud application developers is, “What kind of storage should we use for our app?” Unlike other choices like compute runtimes—Lambda/serverless, containers or virtual machines—data storage choice is highly sticky and makes future application improvements and migrations much harder. All three hyperscalers have storage services that present block, file and object-based […]
How to Go Multi-Cloud: A Simple Three-Step Approach
Odds are your business already uses cloud technology for automation, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure updates and other purposes. But you don’t have to stick to a single cloud server or provider. In fact, you can take advantage of multi-cloud strategies for your organization and reap the benefits for years to come. That said, multi-cloud adoption and […]
The Benefits of a Distributed Cloud
The way applications are created has changed dramatically in just a few short years. It’s now all about rapid assembly and integration; applications built using microservices and containerized. Containers and the cloud have certainly been the catalyst for this progress and will continue to be the infrastructure on which developers create new and innovative applications. […]
A Guide to Cloud Migration Trends and Strategies
For several years, we have witnessed widescale cloud adoption as a software infrastructure growth and maintenance strategy. Spending on cloud application services (SaaS) continues to grow as monolithic applications are replaced by microservices-based apps and monoliths become relics of the past. In 2021 alone, companies spent $410.9 billion on public cloud services, and Gartner expects […]
API Gateway Vs. Service Mesh: What’s the Difference?
In the average microservices architecture, app programs trade the stability and rigidity a call stack offers for the network’s flexibility. Consequently, latency, security and traceability issues that were previously absent become a service call concern. Service mesh is the resulting solution to eliminate these issues and allow developers to focus on more important business solutions. […]
Moving From Lift-and-Shift to Cloud-Native
Analyst firm Forrester recently predicted that 2022 “will see big organizations move decisively away from lift-and-shift approaches to the cloud, embracing cloud-native technologies instead.” According to Gartner, more than 85% of enterprises “will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and will not be able to fully execute on their digital strategies without the use of […]
DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: Life in the Fast Lane?
Scream if you want to go faster! When it comes to a dual hybrid-cloud-and-DevOps rollout, most organizations would admit they’re eager to get going a little bit faster. But what started so enthusiastically can turn to frustration (and a different kind of screaming starts) when they’ve accelerated into this major transformation without considering all the […]
Why Distributed Cloud Is the Future of Cloud Computing
A distributed cloud is a public cloud service that allows you to run public cloud infrastructure in multiple physical locations while being centrally managed for performance and compliance. The most innovative companies are moving all their assets to a distributed cloud structure. It is safe to say that distributed cloud is the future of cloud […]