Monolith to Modularity, an example
Virtual Machines and Monoliths can be valid. It is untrue that every application must be decomposed into microservices, and containers. Decomposed microservices architectures are difficult to build and operate, leading to higher costs. Not all
J.P. Morgan: Digital, Data Transformation and the Data Mesh
Monolithic applications may need to be decomposed in service-oriented components, to run and scale in lightweight containers. Similarly, monolithic Data architectures may need to be rebuilt into service-oriented Data flows and processes. This can transform
AWS ECS and GitHub integration to create CI-CD pipelines
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy to operate containerized workloads at scale. It also integrates with other core AWS services, such as Amazon Route
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 delivery. They are slightly different concepts with continuous deployment seamlessly integrating with the usual ‘infinity
Cloud Containers and Virtual Machines: Overview of use cases.
Containers and Virtual Machines both have a role within the modern Cloud architecture. Both possess some advantages and disadvantages. The graphics below summarises the key differences: Main use case for Cloud Containerisation is application
Configuration Management Database and single sources of asset ‘truth’
Most firms have issues with understanding their IT assets across environments. Many have more than 1 database of asset and configuration information; quite a few customise the configuration management database and make it difficult to
Key reasons why Agile for Cloud deployments may fail
Using Agile within Cloud deployments can fail for the following key reasons: Culture of the firm is not democratized and does not allow for experimentation, failure, or subject matter expert control over technology components. The
Why Agile is Superior to the Bureaucratic Mess called ‘Waterfall’
Waterfall theologies are directly responsible for the failure of ~70% of IT projects of any size and variety. Forrester estimates that 68% of projects fail due to poor requirements gathering; Gartner regularly publishes reports outlining
Agile in reality
What is Agile? About 70% of projects fail. Most of these – a vast majority – still use the Waterfall methodology. Waterfall is completely unsuited to building software, code, systems or complexity of any variety.