by ray | Sep 27, 2018 | Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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 posted revenue of $52.9 billion...
by ray | Sep 26, 2018 | Amazon
The items we buy say a lot about our lifestyles, our finances, and our domestic lives. If you have an Amazon account, the amount of data that the retail giant collects is astonishing. Many people don’t know you get much more than just free two-day shipping with a...
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...
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...
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...
