DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship Aimed at Business Success

April 5, 2018 by Veritis 0 Comments

DevOps and cloud computing are not mutually exclusive, though their relationship has often been uncertain and confusing from a layman’s perspective. While cloud computing relates to technology and services, DevOps is more about processes and process improvement. However, both DevOps and cloud computing are vital in every organization’s journey toward an effective digital transformation. Cloud-centric […]

Building a Solid Foundation for Microservices Security

March 27, 2018 by Horacio Duran 1 Comments

It’s often true that threats evolve faster than development practices and technologies can keep up with, which can be seen in the current microservices approach to application development. While microservices bring clear benefits to developers by enabling application deployment via modular, independently deployable services, they also open the door to new security vulnerabilities. Consequently, these […]

Transition to DevOps Increasing Across IT Firms

March 26, 2018 by Veritis 1 Comments

Demand for faster product development and quick market release created a need for increased collaboration between Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops) teams, which eventually led to “DevOps.” With this, transition to DevOps has become one of the key points of discussion across many IT firms. This article gives you an overview of the demand and […]

NATS Messaging Entering Cloud Native Purview

March 16, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has expanded the scope of its purview by adding open source NATS messaging software to an expanding list of technologies it now oversees. NATS messaging software has been commonly employed in environments such as platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments. But with the rise of microservices, a campaign to make NATS a […]

Service Mesh: The Best Way to Scale Enterprise Apps

March 8, 2018 by Zach Jory 0 Comments

Microservices are great for DevOps, but the service-to-service communication these architectures depend on are complex to run and manage at production scale. Enter service mesh: the best way for enterprises to scale, secure and monitor apps. A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer enabling service-to-service communication to be quick, secure and reliable. If you’re building […]

The Executive’s Guide to Microservices Chapter 3: Choosing A Starting Point

February 16, 2018 by JP Morgenthal 0 Comments

In the previous chapter, Steve had been asked to provide a comparison of costs and resources needed to migrate to a commercial system versus modernize the current system. He works with Stacey, head of development, who comes up with a modernization plan that includes certain changes that the team will implement to limit downtime. Steve […]

7 Principles for Using Microservices to Build an API That Lasts

February 7, 2018 by Chris McFadden 1 Comments

SparkPost launched the first beta version of our cloud-based email delivery service three years ago. At its introduction, a handful of customers sent a few million emails a month. Now, our API is used by tens of thousands of customers—including Pinterest, Zillow, and Intercom—to send more than 15 billion emails a month. That dramatic […]

The Executive’s Guide to Microservices Chapter 2: The Business Challenge

December 18, 2017 by JP Morgenthal 2 Comments

Steve and team have been working diligently to analyze the intricate web of code that has been organically developed over the past 12 years to design a program to modernize the application. Application is actually a poor name for all that Steve and his team manages. Steve’s team manages a complex custom supply-chain system that […]