Tag: Cloud Development

October 10, 2023

In an effort to reduce the scarcity of trained cloud developers, AWS is releasing a new virtual program, dubbed Cloud Institute. AWS Cloud Institute, which is a one-year program with 12 different courses spread across four quarters, has been designed […]

October 10, 2023

Open source is a polarizing topic in IT and has been for most of my career. More emotions exist around using open source than any other technology. This could get worse with the rise of generative AI-based applications. Using open […]

September 7, 2023

Cloud computing conference season is here, and the theme is clear. Conferences are not focusing on general cloud computing services, such as storage, compute, security, and databases. Instead, they have become generative AI conferences . Please don’t get me wrong—I’m […]

September 6, 2023

Cloud computing conference season is here, and the theme is clear. Conferences are not focusing on general cloud computing services, such as storage, compute, security, and databases. Instead, they have become generative AI conferences . Please don’t get me wrong—I’m […]

August 31, 2023

Modernizing IT is meant to rationalize processes, simplify operations and reduce friction. When systems resist integration, it can also lead to frustration and cost overruns. Organizations cautiously loosened the purse strings this year, as the macroeconomic environment improved. But investing […]

November 3, 2022

Did you know that 50% of global corporate data is stored in the cloud? Little wonder many more businesses are working on moving their web-based applications to the cloud. A good reason for this decision is the high ROI on […]

September 23, 2022

It’s Tuesday morning and you’re on a Zoom call for the daily scrum meeting. You get the normal updates on progress and barriers to progress, which seem to be repeating patterns from project to project. However, you notice that you […]

May 17, 2022

I often remember fondly the days of the waterfall software development life cycle. Each task had a beginning and an end. One work product was the input for the next documentation or code, and while it took much longer and […]

February 8, 2022

Service-oriented development is older than most people realize. Yes, the notion of microservices is a relatively new trend; however, developers have used services for years to build applications and orchestrations out of existing services that you don’t develop or net-new […]

December 3, 2020

The Bank of England is working with a cloud development platform supplier to support its cloud development journey. Through a deal with Appvia, the UK financial services regulator’s development teams will have access to a cloud resource orchestration platform to […]

August 7, 2020

Considering that AI Workloads running in a public cloud – or a cloud-enabled datacenter – need comprehensive planning and in-depth analysis of cost structures, data and compute need to end up in a cost-optimized production environment. A post recently written […]

August 4, 2020

In June 2020, CIO held its first CIO Think Tank, a series of virtual roundtables that brought together 30 IT leaders to unpack one of the most important issues in enterprise technology today: managing multiple clouds. The roundtables also featured […]

June 8, 2020

Cloud computing is much more than a limitless expanse of servers and software you pay to use over the internet. The cloud has become a metaphor for modern computing itself, where everything is a service – which can connect and […]

March 6, 2020

Most applications are stateful. Stateful is when streaming services remember where you left off in a movie even if you switch devices, or mobile applications store users’ preferences or recently opened files. For application-level cases, it’s the ability to recover […]

January 30, 2020

For enterprises built before or outside of the digital ecosystem, the pull of cloud computing can feel more like a shove. It needn’t seem that way. The impact of the cloud According to the TCS 2020 CIO Study, cloud computing […]

December 10, 2019

Cloud migration projects have two dimensions. First, they are short-term sprints where a project team migrates a handful of application workloads and data stores to a single or multicloud. They act independently, with little architectural oversite or governance, and last […]

October 11, 2019

One of the truisms about cloud architecture is that there are typically 100×100 architecture solution patterns. They all work, but only one is the right solution. If your head is swimming, let me explain. Indeed, many technology stacks and approaches […]

June 28, 2019

I’m a cloud computing architect. I get to draw impressive diagrams, meet with cloud providers, pick security approaches and technology, deal with governance, and then turn the whole thing over to other people to actually do the work. Nice work […]