Tag: architecture
The Implications of Architecture: Optimizing Developer Experience for Serverless Success
Realizing the benefits of serverless architecture and avoiding its pitfalls starts with understanding what it is and how it fits into the cloud computing ecosystem ...
Best of 2023: Don’t Build Microservices, Pursue Loose Coupling
Teams that embrace loose coupling are better equipped to respond to challenges, gain a competitive advantage and adapt to a constantly changing tech landscape ...
How Enterprise Software Architects can Design for Sustainability
Organizations of all sizes are feeling the pressure to introduce more aggressive sustainability measures to combat climate change. For example, most cloud service providers have announced significant climate pledges to either reduce ...
Meet the New(ish) Pipeline
My company keeps a sample project running pretty much all of the time. Our current project (multi-target web/Android app using Java and Spring built with Gradle and Ant that we'll call "Finder" ...
DevSecOps: Rethinking and Reengineering Cloud Security
Organizations are embracing the cloud to modernize legacy applications, create more resilient business infrastructures and to support remote work. In fact, Deloitte’s "TMT Predictions 2021: Cloud Migration Trends and Forecast" report suggests ...
Digital Transformation: How DevOps Could Have Revamped Toys R Us
The story you're about to read and its recommendations are real; they contrast with what you have heard so far about digital transformation and DevOps implementation. Its objective is to convince you ...
Securing Immutable Servers in a Serverless World
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security ...
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word "legacy" evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver ...
All Day DevOps: DevOps at Massive Scale
When you have a billion users, people notice. That’s where our story about DevOps and Yahoo! starts. For Kishore Jalleda and Gopal Mor, both engineers at Yahoo!, when something goes wrong on ...
DevOps and Automation Abstraction?
Similarity breeds consistency, giving way to predictability and, thereby, dropping costs of operations and quality from a lower number of incidents and a shorter duration to resolve them. But at the heart ...
Dying for Intelligent Calendar Awareness
What would we die for in an integrated DevOps tooling solution—something that would make our operations partners stand up and cheer? Intelligent calendar awareness. The most fundamental construct of any release orchestrations ...
The Beauty of Inheritance Architectures
Spoiler alert: This article is not about inheriting your great-grandparent’s estate. It is rather about how embedding the principles of inheritance into the architecture of your chosen DevOps toolset can yield exponential ...