Tag: PaaS

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, ...

Cosmonic Unveils PaaS for Building Wasm Applications
Cosmonic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference unveiled a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment for building cloud-native applications using Web Assembly. Based on the open source wasmCloud distributed computing environment now ...

Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...

Solving the Speed Paradox With Open Source PaaS
The number of DevOps tools keeps growing, as does the number of cloud resources and options to manage those resources. On EC2 alone, AWS offers nearly 400 instance types across storage, networking ...

Encore Platform for Running Distributed Apps in the Cloud Arrives
Encore has made generally available a namesake backend development engine for rapidly building scalable distributed IT environments across multiple cloud platforms. Fresh off raising $3 million in seed funding, Encore CEO André ...

Shift Left: Right or Wrong?
The term DevOps emerged into mainstream software development communities roughly 10 years ago. It represented a combination of tools and techniques which helped solve many pertinent issues of the time, namely responsibility ...

AWS Outage and App Resiliency: Did a Roomba Replace the Canary?
Canaries were once sent into coal mines as an early warning sign against danger—for me, it was my Roomba failing to automatically search out dog hair and clean the floor under my ...

Lightbend Launches Serverless Managed DevOps Service
Lightbend today unfurled a cloud service based on a serverless framework that provides developers with a managed DevOps platform to build applications that dynamically scale resources up and down as required. Brad ...

Esri Unveils PaaS Environment for Calling Geospatial Data via APIs
Esri today unveiled a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment through which developers can embed geospatial capabilities into their applications by making an application programming interface (API) call to a cloud service. Euan Cameron, CTO ...

Cloud Foundry Foundation Updates CLI to Extend DevOps Processes
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) today released an update to its command-line interface (CLI) that will enable DevOps teams to build more granular and complex workflows spanning multiple processes across the open ...

How to Implement a Data Self-Service Program
Data self-service is a hot topic these days. By giving different people across an organization–marketers, technologists, business leaders, etc.–access to available data and analytics tools, you empower business users and decision makers ...

Castles in the Cloud: How to Take Your Business Kingdom Off-Prem with Confidence
Cloud transformation requires migrating all or part of an organization’s virtual assets off-premises, typically to a public cloud. This enables greater efficiency and cost savings, among other benefits, but it brings heightened ...