Category: Cloud Design Goals

Docker – summary of what, when, why

What are Docker containers? Docker containers are lightweight application hosting environments. Like VMs, they are designed to be easily portable between diffe…

Kubernetes and the Micro-services ‘way of thinking’

Kubernetes (K8s) use-cases are centred on scaling. Architectures which are Containerised, with hundreds, or even thousands of Containers require immutable scal…

API LifeCycle Management, a summary

API and REST standards allowed an easier exchange of data and system connectivity. This has propelled the rise of containers, and Kubernetes, in which applicat…

API Gateway and a Service Mesh: Summary of Use Cases

There is a connectivity overlap within level 7 between the API Gateway and a Service Mesh. Service Mesh’s, which are decentralized proxies running against each…

Data Architecture and Data Architects; role, deliverables, purpose

IaC Books and Summer reading

Infrastructure as code (IaC), attempts to codify the underlying deployment infrastructure. There are 2 broad categories: continuous deployment, or continuous d…

Defining Principles for Architects based on TOGAF

Defining Principles for Architects based on TOGAF IT Principle Architects and their role in building and aligning IS architectures (Source Link). Redacted and …

Cloud Centre of Excellence

Build one per Cloud platform For Very Large Enterprises, it is unlikely that you will succeed at Cloud, without a centralised method, set of processes, standar…

Overview of SaaS

Software as a service Software as a service (SaaS) involves hosting the software remotely and providing access to it over the Internet. Software is deployed on…