Tag: AWS
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Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction
Kubernetes is great, but it’s been a 7 year distraction Opening question Or, here if that’s your thing. Shaking the snow globe When you watch the making of kubernetes documentary, you’ll notice a strange character. Time and time again Amazon is referred to directly or indirectly. But, Amazon’s spokesperson in the documentary is a silent,…
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How much on-premises is out there?
Hot new epigraph for daily life: There’s probably a lot of things I should be doing, but I’ve gotten good at not doing them. Mid-week edition Boy, in this issue you have a ramble – and then I lost energy and needed to get on with my day. I’ve written this issue up many times…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #48
How was your week? A free conference I helped make: DevOps Loop, Oct 4th Next month is DevOps Loop. It’s a conference I’ve been helping out together and it has an outstanding talk list. I’ve worked closely with several speakers to curate talks on things I’m interested in and that they’re excited about. Register and…
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🗂 Link: VMware Tanzu Completes the Modern Applications Picture
help customers build modern applications, run Kubernetes consistently across environments and manage it all from a single point of control. Source: VMware Tanzu Completes the Modern Applications Picture
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🗂 Link: Datadog IPO | S-1 Breakdown
Datadog is a rare company — every financial and business metric is best-in-class. Source: Datadog IPO | S-1 Breakdown
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Link: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on transparency, developers, multi-cloud
The other thing that we’re working with most of our enterprise customers is, what is an exit strategy? What do I need to do, if one moment I decide that I would like to move over to another provider? That for any large enterprise is just good due diligence. If you start using a [SaaS…
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Link: Traffic tech company INRIX approaches its 15th birthday, looks to AI to drive its business
Source: Traffic tech company INRIX approaches its 15th birthday, looks to AI to drive its business
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Link: Shipping giant Maersk on taking a cloud-first approach to disrupting the competition
“When we moved to the cloud the first time, we cut down the lead time for an environment from 100 days to 85 days. This is self-inflicted lead time… processes that are keeping you from moving faster,” he said. “We also had 30 people involved in a classic delivery, and we figured the cost was…
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Link: Comic Relief switched from multi-cloud to serverless with AWS and saw a 93% cost reduction
As a team, going serverless has given us a lot more velocity, we can rapidly release, we can test the same infrastructure we’re deploying in production, in a pull request environment, in a staging environment, we can rapidly retest ideas- and every developer can do that because we’re using Lambda to load test, so the…
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Google Cloud stuff
A brief overview: The expansion centers around Google’s new open-source hybrid cloud package called Anthos, which was introduced at the company’s Google Next event this week. Anthos is based on – and supplants – the company’s existing Google Cloud Service beta. Anthos will let customers run applications, unmodified, on existing on-premises hardware or in the…
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Link: Standard Bank contracts with AWS for mass migration to the cloud
The bank has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider with the intention of porting its production workloads, including its customer facing platforms and strategic core banking applications to the cloud. From what I can tell talking with banks, they’re over that 2010 thing of “public cloud isn’t secure enough.” Now it’s a scramble to…
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Link: BMC Touches Clouds with Job Scheduler
The new support for cloud platform as a service (PaaS) functions — including Lambda, step functions, and batch on AWS and logic apps and functions on Azure — gives organizations the capability to orchestrate workflows on the cloud. But, importantly, it also allows customers to integrate these cloud functions with applications running in private clouds…
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🗂 AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project
> Earlier reports indicated that AWS has for some time been working on a cloud service that would allow people with little to no software development experience create simple business applications without having to call up the IT department, but it wasn’t clear what that entailed. www.geekwire.com/2019/aws-…
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🗂 AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
> This leaves MongoDB Inc. not unlike the record companies after the advent of downloads: what they sold was not software but rather the tools that made that software usable, but those tools are increasingly obsolete as computing moves to the cloud. And now AWS is selling what enterprises really want. stratechery.com/2019/aws-…
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🗂 Contemporary Views on Serverless and Implications
It either means not having to worry about managing your middleware stack and/or a trigger-driven event system. m.subbu.org/contempor…
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Link: AWS’s Snowball Edge
A private cloud box from Amazon: The Snowball Edge Compute Optimized with GPU includes an on-board GPU that you can use to do real-time full-motion video analysis & processing, machine learning inferencing, and other highly parallel compute-intensive work. You can launch an sbe-g instance to gain access to the GPU. It has Lamda and EC2…
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Link: Container Orchestration Market – Global Forecast to 2023, from Research and Markets
The global container orchestration market size is expected to grow from USD 326.1 million in 2018 to USD 743.3 million by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.9% during the forecast period. Composed of: SUSE, Oracle, Microsoft, Red Hat, AWS, Google, Docker, Mesosphere, Rancher Labs, Cisco, Critical Stack, Giant Swarm, Ericsson, Aptible,…
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Link: VMware’s vision – your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications
“Support for VMware’s NSX virtual network over AWS Direct Connect links that allow extending network configuration and security policies from an enterprise data center to AWS. It also enhanced NSX features on the AWS Cloud to include better control over intra-cloud traffic and support for micro-segmented security policies. Support for high-speed Direct Connect links also…
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Link: Investors Have Misdiagnosed Amazon’s Push Into The Pharmacy Business
“The preponderance of drugs in the U.S. is consumed by an older population, whose habits change slowly or not at all. Accordingly, it’s likely that Amazon’s online pharmacy will not significantly impact the existing drug industry…. Here’s why: Americans currently spend $450 billion a year on drugs. Walmart is the fourth-largest pharmacy in the U.S.,…
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Link: The Trouble with Cloud “Repatriation”
“Forty-seven (47%) percent of them said improving performance/availability was one of the main reasons for leveraging multiple infrastructure environments.” Original source: The Trouble with Cloud “Repatriation”
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