There is no shortage of advice out there about how to secure modern, cloud-native workloads. By now, most developers and IT engineers who work with cloud-native deployments have heard all of the mantras about DevSecOps,…
Why is it important to track and monitor cloud costs? The obvious answer is it helps you save money—and everyone wants to save money. Yet, cost plays a much larger role in your cloud journey.…
Those tools are certainly part of an effective AWS performance optimization strategy. On their own, however, they are not enough to guarantee performance and reliability over the long haul. That’s because tools and processes such…
At first glance, your IT infrastructure might seem like your house’s basement. It supports everything, but you don’t pay much attention to it or spend much time or energy trying to make it beautiful. Instead,…
When we talk about best practices for software reliability, the conversation tends to focus on optimizing the applications themselves and the infrastructure that hosts them. The driving idea is that reliability must be baked into…
What makes an app reliable? If you ask most IT professionals that question, their minds immediately go to uptime. That’s not surprising; after all, it’s fashionable for software and infrastructure vendors these days to boast…
As a startup, an organization thrives by breaking rules, challenging the status quo, and standing for all that is against the norm. The same rules don’t apply once the same organization grows, matures, becomes popular,…
The cloud-native approach is not just about compute power and cloud services. A “set it and forget it” attitude won’t work with cloud-native; there are far too many moving pieces and there is just way…