Tag: cloud-based applications

March 31, 2023

Back in 2019, I wrote about the “container tax.” In simple terms, this is the additional cost to use containers properly within a cloud-based application. It includes development, operations, and other expenses that containers incur. The goal of leveraging containers […]

September 24, 2021

These days cloud application developers are also security engineers. Who did not see this coming, given that application-level security is no longer an option? Also, we are pushing developers to build applications at scale, meaning they are becoming ops engineers […]

March 3, 2021

They say you can only have two of three — fast, good and cheap. When it comes to developing cloud-based applications, I think that a fourth criteria should be added: secure. But, I honestly don’t think that this common advice […]

June 23, 2020

By now, you likely have adopted new cloud-based applications, deployed new technologies, moved workloads from internal systems to cloud environments, and adjusted data and usage policies to list a few things. And many of you have done even more. But […]

May 26, 2020

Technology has provided companies with a host of new ways to do business – from machine learning patterns that can make startlingly accurate business predictions to the growth of IoT delivering on the promise of a more connected environment. These […]

April 21, 2020

Cisco announced Tuesday that it’s expanding its partnership with Google Cloud around network connectivity to cloud-based applications. Specifically, the companies will integrate Cisco’s software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) with Google Cloud’s global network and Anthos, offering joint customers full WAN […]

November 27, 2018

Did your cloud application, retail or not, make it through Cyber Monday? Most did fine, but some found that a lack of architecture and the lack of enabling technology led to some stressful hours. Today, cloud-based applications that had had […]

September 6, 2018

By now, you’re probably aware that cloud computing powers a lot of the tools and applications you use every day. But cloud computing isn’t just the technology that keeps your social media feed fresh– cloud computing and cloud-based applications are […]