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 readIf you’re in the tech community then it’s highly like that you have (at least) heard talk of edge computing. But what, exactly, is the latest tech buzzword referring to? What do they mean when they describe running applications “at the edge”? And, when it’s all said and done, what is it about edge computing
· July 19, 2020 · 5 min readIn the world of retail, all real-world activities like shopping, billing, inventory management, and logistics happen at different locations while the data analytics that drives all these activities is performed in a centralized data center or a public cloud location. This divide will soon be a thing of the past as edge computing pushes data
· July 17, 2020 · 5 min read
Kubernetes is a complicated beast in many respects, and monitoring is no exception. Although in some ways the monitoring tooling and strategies that teams already have in place can be extended to support Kubernetes, in other ways Kubernetes requires you to forget everything you think you know about how APM is supposed to work. To
· July 16, 2020 · 8 min read