Category: Enterprise Architecture

Disaster 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…

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Management of Clusters

A record number of organizations were using containers and Kubernetes to run their enterprise applications last year, according to the Cloud Native Computing F…

Deploying an API Control and Data Plane Gateway – a project example

3 Myths around Multi-Cloud

Cloud is King, but at times the myths around the King are difficult to comprehend. The ‘Cloud’ is a complete OSI stack and platform and there are extraordinari…

AWS EKS add-ons, plug-ins and Roadmap

AWS has announced its AWS Kubernetes roadmap which will include an EKS GitOps add-on, along with tighter security and observability integrations with other AWS…

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…

Service Mesh as an extension to API Gateway Patterns

Previous Blog on API Gateways (and APIs). A service mesh is a follow-on pattern built around API Gateway services. The focus of a service mesh is service conne…

API Gateway vs Service Meshing

API Gateways are often used to decouple consumers and producers of information. API Service Meshing can be used to decouple network management within, and betw…