The Cloud Transition The Cloud may not be in-your-face. But it is pervasive, and gradually taking over many aspects of our traditional IT systems. Companies are not yet making wholesale transitions from existing data-centres and on-premise assets to Cloud. However, when infrastructure reviews occur, whether to upgrade or add new resources, the Cloud beckons. Questions […]
Securing our Hybrid Cloud
In a previous article, “One thousand servers, start with one click”, I described the design and implementation of a simple hybrid-Cloud infrastructure. The view was from a high level, and I intend, God willing, to delve into the detail in a later instalment. Before that though, I wanted to touch on the subject of hybrid […]
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1000 Cloud Servers: Start With One Click
Cloud and Open Source The arrival of Cloud providers and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has opened up options and possibilities for solution architects. Our company is working with a client on a major transformation initiative. Leveraging Cloud IaaS and open-source integration platforms, together we have explored options, built competence, and delivered incremental solutions while keeping costs to […]
Factory Approach to Service Engineering – Preamble
World of Perspectives We all see the world from different perspectives, and the sum of perspectives help us to get a better/fuller understanding of our world. In this article, we share a perspective on engineering services for business. This perspective can be summarised as: Intelligent Laziness – strategies to achieve equal or better productivity with […]
Factory Approach to Service Engineering – Business
From Technology to Business In a previous article, I looked at how some metaphors can be used to understand the engineering of software (services). Of the five listed below, I introduced the first four. Factory Pattern Framework Process Service The first three have a clear technical focus; the fourth is a gateway between the technical […]
AWS vs Oracle Cloud – My Experience
Preamble Having had a good impression from my use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), I decided to take a look at Oracle Cloud. AWS is of course the market leader but Oracle, Microsoft et al have joined the fray with competing services. What follows is nothing like a Gartner report, rather it is my personal […]
A Simple DevOps Chain
A Pipeline of Tasks Illustrating a Simple DevOps Chain DevOps is the amalgalm of development activities and the business continuity provided by operations teams. It unites the efforts of what are still two teams, with different competencies, into one value chain. DevOps creates and sustains a unified process for transforming technical requirements into live code […]
Impressive Amazon Web Services: First Glance
Amazon Web Services: Background Amazon Web Services (AWS) have revolutionised the way we view IT provisioning. AWS makes so many things easier, and often cheaper too. The benefits scale from the SME right up to corporates; no segment is left out. Complexity is abstracted away, and with a little effort, large and/or complex systems can […]
The Illusion of Retirement
A Retirement Myth? In a previous article, “Making the best of your 9-5“, I mentioned my dad. Along with hundreds of other employees of a national monopoly, he was forced into retirement in his 50s. But he still had a lot to live for and so continued in active self-employment as a travel agent for […]
Oracle BPEL Subprocess
There are quite a few new features in Oracle BPEL 12c and here is one that I really like; the BPEL subprocess – a task/algorithm that is an association (not composition) of an activity/process. The concept has been around for decades and it has featured in process diagrams and BPMN notation for quite a while, […]
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