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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…