Cloud Design Goals
Backup and Recovery Use Cases Overview
Backup and Recovery is an important part of IT resilience. Application and Platform owners need to work together to provide automation and tooling to allow us …
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Cloud Design GoalsSurviving Ransomware attacks
Understanding infrastructure ransomware Ransomware is a type of malware that targets anything it can get into — including backups — to steal or loc…
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AWS TechnologyService Mesh, Security and High Availability
What are they? Backend cloud services are the operations and routines end users don’t see but are essential to provide resilience and secure access to ba…
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Application TransformationResiliency and High Availability in the Cloud, some key principles
Resiliency in the Cloud is composed of many areas including: Failover (instances, servers) High Availability (multi-zones, regions) Backup Disaster Recovery (p…
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Cloud Design GoalsMainframe Virtualisation and the Cloudy
Many large firms, especially Banks and Financial Institutions are moving to a Mainframe-Multi Cloud model of computing. This is a long term effort still in tra…
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Application TransformationAPI Gateways vs a monolithic Service Bus
APIs provide the standardized contract that was missing from the SOAP environment. SOAP messaging and related protocols were used in the monolithic Service Bus…
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Cloud Design GoalsDisaster Recovery Patterns in AWS
There are four levels of DR protection in AWS. DR patterns: From least costly and complex to most. 1-Backup and restore. Admins typically choose this option fo…
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Cloud Design GoalsSide Car Pattern for Containers
A common Cloud pattern especially with a container deployment model, is to use a side car in which we deploy components of an application into a separate proce…
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Cloud Design GoalsCloud Native, some key ideas
Cloud native is a target model for most firms. Cloud native refers to using the native services and API integrations, along with the platform’s native PaaS off…
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