Cloud Computing

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...