The journey to business agility must travel the road of agile execution. It may be tempting to look at existing software infrastructure and declare it “good enough” for needed business results – but staying the course (i.e. doing nothing) often only compounds existing business problems. Trying a “do it yourself” approach to implement new open-source
· September 4, 2020 · 7 min read
People often talk about Kubernetes as if it’s just one tool that is always deployed in a single way. If only! The reality of Kubernetes is that it is much more complicated. Kubernetes is actually more than a half-dozen different tools, which are combined with various third-party services to build out a complete application hosting
· September 2, 2020 · 6 min read
In business, stagnation is harmful to the health of a company. Without change, a successful company slowly loses relevance while more daring competitors evolve to provide additional value to their customers. In software development, this is especially true. Development organizations that don’t prioritize innovation soon find that their applications and services are technologically stale and
· August 27, 2020 · 5 min read
For the past several years, businesses have been inundated with buzzword-laden rhetoric urging them to embrace “digital transformation,” adopt “agile,” “cloud-native” infrastructures and so on. It’s one thing to talk about the value of these sorts of changes in theory. It’s another to build a digital strategy that puts them into practice – especially given
· August 27, 2020 · 5 min readAs we’ve explained previously on this blog, Kubernetes offers a number of benefits for building stronger organizational culture. But leveraging those benefits is not as simple as deploying Kubernetes and then sitting back while your culture is automagically transformed. Instead, organizations seeking to improve their cultures with the help of Kubernetes must take deliberate steps
· August 20, 2020 · 5 min read
Much has been written about the technical features and benefits of Kubernetes. Technical advantages, however, are only part of the reason to migrate to Kubernetes. Cultural change is an equally important selling point for Kubernetes. In several key ways, Kubernetes can help to optimize the culture around which IT teams and developers are organized, regardless
· August 13, 2020 · 4 min read
Kubernetes wasn’t designed as a change management tool, and you perhaps have never thought about it as being one. Yet in several ways, Kubernetes helps to smooth over the biggest pain-points that IT organizations face when managing change. IT Change Management Challenges To understand how Kubernetes can improve change management, you must first understand the
· August 5, 2020 · 5 min read
There are only so many hours in a day. That’s a fact. And, due to that fact, businesses are forced to make decisions as to how their employees spend their time. This is no different in the realm of software development. These organizations must allocate resources to deal with monitoring and managing application deployments and
· July 31, 2020 · 5 min read
Traditionally, there has been a conceptual divide in the IT industry between so-called Web-scale companies like Google, Facebook and Netflix, and everyone else. The Web-scale giants had the resources to build infrastructures that could scale without limit, deploy software updates thousands of times per day and achieve enormous agility. Meanwhile, everyone else was stuck with
· July 28, 2020 · 5 min read
Building your own Content Delivery Network, or CDN, was once feasible only for major companies with large budgets and development teams. But thanks to containers, it has become practical for anyone to deploy a self-managed CDN in order to improve latency for Web apps. The question for many teams has now become whether it’s worth
· July 27, 2020 · 6 min read
Of all the technology niches that containers have disrupted, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) may not appear high on the list. To date, the biggest impact made by containers has centered around their ability to modernize infrastructure built with virtual machines, redeploy legacy apps, and the like. Yet CDN, too, is ripe for change via containerization.
· July 25, 2020 · 5 min readFor today’s livestream and video streaming needs, low latency is key. This is where edge computing and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) shine – by bringing data storage and computation closer to end users. Connecting with people via livestream was once thought of as something largely used by the gaming and eSports community. However, the tech
· July 21, 2020 · 5 min read