by ray | Sep 27, 2018 | Azure, Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft
While Amazon continues to perform brilliantly in the cloud, it simply can’t keep pace with #1 Microsoft–and the gap is widening. (Photo by Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (Note: After an award-winning career in the media business covering the tech industry,...
by ray | Sep 27, 2018 | Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. (GeekWire Photo) Amazon’s cloud business may get much of the attention for bolstering the company’s bottom line. But an emerging new advertising arm of Amazon is also fueling record profits for the Seattle tech giant. Amazon on Thursday...
by ray | Sep 26, 2018 | Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, Atlassian
A couple of years ago, Dropbox shocked a lot of people when it decided to mostly drop the public cloud, and built its own datacenters. More recently, Atlassian did the opposite, closing most of its datacenters and moving to the cloud. Companies make these choices for...
by ray | Sep 5, 2018 | Kubernetes, Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker
You don’t have to tear down your monolith to modernize it. You can evolve it into a beautiful microservice using cloud-native technologies. In the early days of the internet, if you wanted to launch an application, you had to buy or rent hardware. This was a...
by ray | Sep 5, 2018 | Docker, Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kubernetes and Docker Swarm are both popular and well-known container orchestration platforms. You don’t need a container orchestrator to run a container, but they are important for keeping your containers healthy and add enough value to mean you need to know...
by ray | Sep 5, 2018 | Kubernetes, Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker
It is 2018. Most businesses are using containers, some still hesitate to adapt, but who hasn’t heard of containers? Really, containers are not new technology, in fact, they are old technology. A brief summary can be found here, but BSD Jails, Solaris Zones and the...
