Operations

We live in an increasingly “as-a-service” world. From software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) to functions as a service (FaaS) and SaaS-delivered applications, service delivery has become ...

Microservicin' ain’t easy, but it’s necessary. Breaking your monolith down into microservices is a must in a cloud-native world, but it doesn’t automatically make everything easier. Some things actually become more difficult ...

"Business is technology and technology is business" seems to be the new mantra as the rules of corporate strategy are being rewritten across industries. According to IDC’s survey in 2017, “Two-thirds of ...

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, ...

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 ...

I recently joined Honeycomb, an observability startup where we are working to help generalist software engineers solve problems with their apps in an increasingly distributed world. The architecture we use to deliver ...

Continuous deployment and continuous monitoring have grown up in DevOps, and microservices have grown up as a delivery platform. While all are relatively stable concepts at this point, there are still a ...

At RackN, we've been working for years to make DevOps portable across platforms. For us, that means the ability to move between clouds and from cloud to metal. Of the several challenges ...

Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked ...