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Modernize: Five Pathways To Level Up Your Apps And Infrastructure

The cloud-native paradigm for application development and delivery lights a pathway for organizations to modernize their existing applications and underlying infrastructure — all to achieve benefits ranging from faster time to market, ease of maintenance, granular scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Is your business ready to modernize? Here are five considerations that will help you realize a […]

Platform9 · June 20, 2019 · 5 min read

4 Techniques Serverless Platforms Use to Balance Performance and Cost

In my recent post on InfoQ, I discuss the techniques that serverless platforms use “under the hood” to balance performance and cost. Serverless computing is for many the logical next step in cloud computing, moving applications to a set of higher-level abstractions and offloading more of the low-level operational work to the cloud provider (regardless

erwinv · February 13, 2019 · 2 min read

The Gorilla Guide to Serverless on Kubernetes – Chapter 2: Serverless’ Big Benefits

This is an excerpt from The Gorilla Guide to Serverless on Kubernetes, written by Joep Piscaer. See the first chapter here. You can download the full guide here. The biggest advantage of serverless computing is the clear separation between the developer and the operational aspects of putting code into production. This simplified model of “who does

Platform9 · February 12, 2019 · 4 min read

Enterprise Kubernetes: 5 Insights from KubeCon 2018

I had just returned from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018, which was held this week in Seattle, WA. The 8,000 attendees gathered at the conference (up from around 4,000 just last year!) are a huge testament to the growing adoption, maturation, and impact of Kubernetes in the enterprise. Kubernetes is not only here to stay —

Sirish Raghuram · December 14, 2018 · 5 min read

What is Serverless and What it Means for You – Part 1

Serverless Computing has emerged in the past year as a compelling architectural alternative for building and running modern applications and services. Serverless applications allow developers to focus on their code, instead of on the infrastructure configuration and management. This speeds up development and release cycles, as well as allows for better, more efficient, scaling. Serverless

Platform9 · November 19, 2018 · 8 min read

Enterprise Kubernetes: 5 Insights from KubeCon 2017

Last week, I joined many of my team members at Platform9, and 1000s in the Kubernetes community at KubeCon 2017 in Austin, TX. My takeaway: enterprise Kubernetes momentum is incredible, but several challenges remain and we have a lot of important work to do. Over 200 respondents participated in our survey on the state of

Sirish Raghuram · December 12, 2017 · 4 min read