Tag: cloud
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Kubernetes Service & Distro Usage
Just a few things today. The Network is the Computer “Sun Microsystems founders (left to right) Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy and Vinod Khosla stand in front of their sports cars at the company’s facilities in Palo Alto in 1987”. Posted by readjpeg.raw. Kubernetes Distro Usage If you’re interested in marketshare, usage trends, and…
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What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?
The infrastructure drives the app architecture A cloud native applications is typically designed as a bunch of little components that coordinate with each other over a network. They may use events instead, and while that isn’t the same as point-to-point network communications, it follows the same idea: you have a bunch of indepedent-ish bundles of…
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As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending – Is it too soon to say that open source businesses no longer work? (Unless you’re a bit public cloud or you do open core?)
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The eternal first inning of cloud
LEGACY SOFTWARE AT BANKS! That’s the topic of the talk my colleague and I are giving tomorrow. You can watch it for free, check it out. In addition to the talk, you’ll get a free copy of my book on managing legacy software, Escaping the Legacy Trap Here’s the slides we have so far, a…
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Patterns vs Platforms – It’s all hard stuff. Instead of centralized platforms, perhaps consider public cloud instead, mixed with conventions. Variation: don’t build your own platform, outsource it to a vendor/cloud.
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How’s DevOps been going?
Has DevOps reached its goals from way back in the late 2000’s: deploying multiple times a day and having developers work closely with operations people? Adam Jacob brought up this question in two interviews recently, on my podcast, interviewed on my podcast by Matt Ray this week (which I [cough] haven’t, well actually listened to…
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Avoid cloud lock-in with Kubernetes, findings from the 2023 VMware State of Kubernetes Survey
{{< youtube uqgxkL4KfKE >}} 76% of respondents in our State of Kubernetes 2023 survey say they use multiple clouds – they’re multi-cloud. I look at the driving forces behind multi-cloud adoption, most notably the desire to avoid vendor lock-in. For more insights into multi-cloud strategies, Kubernetes benefits, and the challenges being tackled by your peers,…
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Are you a backpack only, or a carry on bag with wheels traveler?
Mostly links today. I’ve been traveling this week and preparing and bunch of stuff to publish in the future. Tragic for the desire to publish now, now, now… How I Travel Relative to your interests Maximizing value, controlling cost with cloud FinOps – “Among current users, 56% report that spending on public cloud was significantly…
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Gartner Says Four Trends are Shaping the Future of Cloud, Data Center and Edge Infrastructure – Some predictions about how organizations will do public cloud stuff, if you’re into Gartner predictions. Here is one on migrating apps to public cloud: ‘The focus of refactoring cloud infrastructure should be on optimizing costs by eliminating redundant, overbuilt…
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Stop worrying about cloud-lock-in, and outages, Gartner – Perhaps there’s enough good in choosing a single vendor (per app and group of apps, at least) that, like, you should.
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Introducing Kubecost Cloud: Now in Open Beta! – – FinOps!
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Setting the Record Straight on Cloud Computing ROI – Ability to add new features(quickly), access to new tech, scaling and performance, toil reduction to focus on things valuable to the business or competitive advantage, better security. Of course reducing costs (or “efficiency” if you’re forced to feel the “do more with the same/less” vibe) is…
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What Computers Do At Banks, deployment frequencies, some platform engineering, microservices nothing burger(?)
What Computers Do At Banks Here’s two diagrams from a 2021 BCG report on banking that show, basically, everything that IT does for the business part of retail banking. First, the “value streams,” or lines of business and products: Second, what the typical IT stacks look like to support these value streams: Pretty good stuff!…
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Will Platform Engineering Get Loved To Death? –
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Enterprise interest in sovereign cloud on the rise, survey – “In a poll of 1,000 enterprise leaders from 10 countries, including Australia, France, Germany, India, and the UK and US, 69% of respondents cited potential exposure to extra-territorial laws when using cloud as being a top concern.”
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FinOps! Five Cost Management Tips for IT Leaders, IDC – Good chart of what people are doing to optimize cloud spend (only n= from Dec 2022, though). Also:”In a recent IDC poll of CIOs, 64% of respondents said they were spending more on the Cloud than they budgeted. Over 50% of CEOs are concerned about…
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Spring Cloud Gateway: The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Development – Hooking up your applications and the services they depend on, microservices or whatever.
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“Multi-cloud” should just mean “all the computers”
Source: IDC, The Evolution of Cloud Infrastructure: Multicloud to Hybrid; Shared to Dedicated, doc #DR2023_T1_DM, March 2023 Each year when we do the State of Kubernetes survey, we’re of course interested in “multi-cloud.” That’s one of the reasons to use a Kubernetes management suite stack, like VMware Tanzu. The term can mean many things. The…
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