Cases

Cloud-native software development enables new practices. But it also requires them. It is a new level of working. However, putting all these new practices together requires integrating a lot of pieces. To illustrate this new approach, I have started to develop a minimal application. Although minimal, I run it in production. Its basic function is to regularly pull out data from an air quality sensor into a cloud-based database. Together it is a few hundred lines of code. Here are the major features of the example: ...

Detection I should have acted on the first signals more aggressively. But let’s talk about that later in this story. Here is the story of my site being infected with malware, viewed by a professional cloud security expert. So I am going to apply all that cloud security theory to it. The hack led to business damage at the end of one of my webinars. In 2016, on a Friday, I did a webinar, at the end of which I had two links to my site as a call to action. ...

Even in a cloud world, reducing server count is a lofty goal in itself. After all, you would be paying for all those servers anyway. Understand that sticking all your servers in a private cloud makes them more flexible, but not necessarily more efficient or cheaper. Back in 2012 I did an interview with a guy who has a full time job in keeping those server counts down. Ron Kaminski is a capacity planner at Kimberly Clark Corporation (KCC). This interview is a composite of several conversations I had with Ron at the annual Computer Measurement Group (CMG) conferences, and a number of messages Ron wrote. ...