EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
In this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work.
Introduction to MACH Architecture
In recent years, the need to construct end-to-end digital experiences has become increasingly important. But to deliver new features and services promptly, organizations must double down on agility and reusability. As part of this trend, applications have become increasingly modular, often constructed using pre-built microservices and integrating common SaaS to avoid reinventing the wheel. MACH […]
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option.
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.
Introduction to SPIFFE/SPIRE
For a long time, people have been logging into the apps they use via passwords or password managers. And many open standards and identity providers on the market continue to evolve how users authenticate and authorize with websites and applications. The issue is that the same problem exists for software services—when applications talk to applications, […]
Know What You Want and Need
Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, install and configure the software and, in most cases, spend the majority of time on the project getting it to work correctly in […]
Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
In this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux.
Fermyon Adds Managed PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Fermyon Technologies this week launched a hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, dubbed Fermyon Cloud, that promises to make it simpler to build WebAssembly (Wasm) applications. Announced during the Cloud Native Wasm Day event during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference, Fermyon Cloud is now available in open beta. Fresh from raising $20 million in funding, […]
Google Looks to Secure Software Supply Chains
At the Google Cloud Next ’22 conference, Google today launched a managed Software Delivery Shield (SDS) service to enable DevOps team to store, manage and secure the build artifacts in Artifact Registry. At its core, SDS is based on a trust-based policy engine to establish, maintain and verify a chain of trust across the software […]
Microservices Explained: Not Your Father’s SOA
Microservices are frequently referred to as a variant or derivative of service-oriented architecture (SOA), if not essentially the same thing. While there are similarities and both are designed around the concept of services, that’s where the similarities end. Each was created around a different set of principles and intended to address different problems. Microservices architecture […]
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. […]
Cloud-Native: It’s One Thing
This Wednesday, August 10, 2022, starting at 9:00 a.m. ET, Techstrong Group is hosting an awesome virtual conference: CloudNativeDay. I am sure most of you already know a lot about the many cloud-native solutions out there; are familiar with the great work the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) does and that you have Kubernetes clusters […]
Learn Something New Every (Cloud-Native) Day
Being the new guy at Techstrong Group, the first couple of weeks was spent trying to find things. Like the bathroom when I’m at HQ in Boca Raton or the login to the SurveyMonkey account so I could check on the status of our various in-flight research projects. I also realize I have to learn […]
Orgs Struggle to Get App Modernization Right
A survey published today found 93% of IT leader respondents admitted that application modernization efforts are either extremely or somewhat challenging. The survey, which polled 150 IT leaders at organizations with at least 1,000 employees, was conducted by Asperitas, an IT services provider. The survey found the primary issues respondents identified were identifying the right […]
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. […]
Red Hat CEO: Out | Blind Users: Revolt | ARM: Google Joins Party
In this week’s The Long View: Matt Hicks is the new Red Hat CEO, visual accessibility is in focus, and Google Cloud rolls out ARM instances.
Rust in Linux 5.20 | Deepfake Hiring Fraud | IBM WFH ‘New Normal’
In this week’s The Long View: Linus says next release will support Rust, FBI warns scammers are getting hired in deepfake interviews, and 80% of IBM staff stay at home.
Survey Reveals High Cost of Application Modernization
A survey of 250 software developers and architects in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) reported that the average cost of an application modernization project is nearly $1.5 million, with 79% noting that at least one of these projects has failed. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of vFunction, a provider of a […]
Saying Goodbye to Legacy Systems
Are you still using a rotary phone, tube television or Rolodex? Probably not. But if you were, you’d still be using newer technology than what many enterprises still rely on every day to drive mission-critical applications that we use every day when shopping, banking or hundreds of other normal tasks. At least two-thirds of large […]
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
In this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing.
Container Storage for DevOps: New Options With NVMe
The DevOps world is ripe for a storage paradigm change, both in how it operates within the enterprise and how it implements applications. NVMe, especially NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMeoF), is both a tool and a host target that can provide such a change—especially in the new world of microservices and containerization. NVMe can drastically improve application performance […]
How to Secure CI/CD Pipelines With DevSecOps
Many companies are adopting a DevOps approach in their workflows as IT moves toward a more automated and cloud-native world—but for some industries, this migration isn’t easy. Many of these companies—in finance, health care, government—are obligated to meet compliance requirements. For these organizations, DevSecOps adds necessary security focus to the DevOps methodology. Compliance means adhering […]
The Argo Project: Making GitOps Practical
If you’re a DevOps engineer, chances are you have at least heard the name “Argo,” seen the friendly squid logo, and wondered: What the heck is this tool everyone is talking about? In a nutshell, Argo is a popular open source tool that is making GitOps practical for anyone who uses Kubernetes. But it’s much […]