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
Kubernetes is a powerful infrastructure platform for developers. Its self-service nature allows developers to take control of releasing software to production without the direct involvement of Ops teams. This helps development teams increase their velocity, enabling them to release more often and more quickly, with more control over the infrastructure than ever to optimize cost,
· 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
In the public cloud, “design patterns” have emerged as a popular concept for defining cloud strategies tailored to specific use cases or goals. Microsoft offers a series of design patterns for Azure, for example, and practitioners have adopted similar strategies for AWS. To date, however, there has been less discussion of design patterns for private
· July 15, 2020 · 5 min read
Over the past few years, organizations looking to build private clouds have gained some interesting new options in the form of Azure Stack and AWS Outposts. At the same time, OpenStack remains an important contender in the private cloud ecosystem. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of these three platforms is critical for deciding which solution
· July 13, 2020 · 7 min read