Cloud Design Goals
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…
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Application TransformationJenkins and Continuous Integration and Builds
(Steps to deploy a Jenkins build server in AWS https://d1.awsstatic.com/Projects/P5505030/aws-project_Jenkins-build-server.pdf) Continuous integration takes co…
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MicroservicesWhen to use Docker and Containers – a summary
What are Docker containers? Docker containers are lightweight application hosting environments. Like VMs, they are designed to be easily portable between diffe…
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MicroservicesKubernetes and a Service Mesh
How a service mesh combats Kubernetes’ limitations Kubernetes is not set up to provide a high degree of management for inter-container data processing. A…
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MicroservicesService Mesh – Benefits and Challenges
Microservices and distributed applications require instantaneous network communications and complex orchestrations to ensure high performance and fast scalabil…
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AWS TechnologyKubernetes – resiliency, backup, recovery, administration overview
The basics: Setup a VPC in AWS with separate networking for both a Control and Data Plane (and associated resources, Ec2 builds automated using Terraform or CF…
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Enterprise ArchitectureAWS 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…
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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…
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MicroservicesKong API Gateway for Architects – a summary
Kong Kong API Gateway sits in front of the backend API services. The gateway forwards client requests to those services. Kong is the first point that the clien…
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ObservabilityObservability Summarised
Observability is Yet Another Buzzword or YAB. But what is it? In reality it is monitoring your systems and then acting on them to either fix or prevent issues.…
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ObservabilitySplunk, Cloud Watch and Metric Value Streams
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides patterns for high-resolution visibility into AWS infrastructure services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), …
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Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
It is best to use a managed Kubernetes service. EKS in AWS or similar would be preferable for most companies, given the inherent cost and complexity in trying …
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