Cloud Native

When it comes to the cloud, building scalable, secure, and reliable applications is key. I wrote this post with the cloud in mind, the same principles can apply to any system. So first, let’s look at the key challenges when developing in the cloud. Challenges of cloud I would categorise the challenges into eight specific ones, but what are they and what does each one mean? Availability Usually measured as a percentage, also known as uptime....

There is a medieval French phrase, the modern form of this is “Rome ne s’est pas faite en un jour”. Translated that means “Rome wasn’t built in a day”. It’s an adage attesting to the need for time to create great things. One of the things I commonly hear from IT Pros is the sheer amount of technology in play. How distributed it all is and how hard it is to learn if you don’t have a software engineering background....