The cloud is the future. It’s irrefutable. 90% of companies now use the cloud to host their scalable applications. Globally, 74% of IT decision-makers predict that they will shift 95% of all workloads to the cloud within five years. Accordingly, there are hundreds of cloud providers competing with its top-notch services to be leading service …
Containerization is more than just the way forward. It is now the norm rather than the exception; all new apps are designed to leverage cloud-native features, with microservices running in containers. Containerization has enabled applications to run with immense efficiency and scalability, but the use of containers is not without its challenges. Until very recently, …
This year’s global pandemic has forced the fast adjustment for many organizations from in-office normality to a remote working setup at whiplash speed. The rapid adoption of remote working is not easy though—even without the pressure of COVID. Challenges are abundant for both those with remote working experience and those without. Managers and team leaders …
The adaptability and flexibility of today’s cloud services present a lot of opportunities to cut infrastructure costs. Amazon Web Services and its plethora of services let you set up any kind of cloud environment for any type of application, without forcing you to make long-term commitments. At the very least, you don’t have to make …
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Failure to implement sufficient information security measures in today’s world could lead to severe consequences. Information security needs to be an inseparable part of the continuous delivery pipeline, which is why the concept of DevSecOps has become more and more popular. DevOps may offer a way to remain agile and operate at immense efficiency, but …
Service mesh is not a new concept, but its implementation for connecting microservices running on top of Kubernetes as a containerization platform makes the idea of having a service mesh more popular. Without a service mesh, each microservice needs to be configured to accept (and send) connections to other microservices it needs to communicate with. …
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There are multiple ways to deploy a cloud-native app in an efficient environment. Whether you have a single service or hundreds of microservices, you can configure your cloud cluster for maximum performance. The two most popular ways are by utilizing Kubernetes and Docker Compose, with the former being more popular in today’s market. Docker Compose …
Setting up an alert mechanism is becoming increasingly important due to the fast-paced nature of modern service development and delivery. Users are more sensitive to disruptions in their experience and organizations rely more on business solutions running in the cloud. For an event or an error to go unnoticed—and not handled properly—is unacceptable in the …
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The risk of cyberattacks, hardware failure, and other disasters is real, and these risks can catastrophically disable a system or application; they can even render an entire cloud environment inaccessible in some cases. When disasters are not managed as risks, disruptions to business processes are to be expected. A disaster recovery plan is basically a …
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Identity and Access Management is a crucial component of Amazon Web Services. It handles the management of user identities and credentials throughout Amazon’s cloud ecosystem. IAM isn’t just useful for managing access to EC2 instances. It can actually be integrated to control access to other Amazon services, including specific tools like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service …
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Until very recently, there was no official form of accreditation for working with Kubernetes. The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program was designed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), working in partnership with The Linux Foundation, to help advance usage the Kubernetes ecosystem. Google aligned itself with The Linux Foundation to form the Cloud Native …
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Over recent years, infrastructure as code has made creating and managing a complex cloud environment —plus making necessary ongoing changes to that environment—significantly more streamlined. Rather than having to handle infrastructure management separately, developers can push infrastructure changes and updates alongside updates to application code. Terraform from HashiCorp has been a leading tool in the …
Many developers will say that DevOps is the way forward (we’ve even said it ourselves many times), and there are good reasons for that. DevOps offers…
The DevOps methodology hinges on three main principles known as The Three Ways. These are…
Technology provides great utility in almost every aspect of our lives but can prove to be frustrating to work with at times. As technology gets
Learn about some of the biggest announcements and highlights from VP, Database, Analytics and ML, Swami Sivasubramanian’s keynote, at AWS re:Invent 2022.
Learn about some of the biggest announcements and highlights from SVP, AWS Utility Computing, Peter DeSantis’s keynote, at AWS re:Invent 2022.
Technology provides great utility in almost every aspect of our lives but can prove to be frustrating to work with at times. As technology gets
Learn about some of the biggest announcements and highlights from VP, Database, Analytics and ML, Swami Sivasubramanian’s keynote, at AWS re:Invent 2022.
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