Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
Spaghetti and meatballs
If you’re here for my experiments in culinary science move along swiftly, this post isn’t for you. This is all about enterprise architecture versus cloud native architecture. RDBMS is a meatball Enterprises use (or at least have used) Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), and such things have become deeply embedded into the organisation and culture […]
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Tags: capacity management, cloud, cloud native, culture, data, dba, enterprise, ETL, meatballs, organisation, rdbms, scale, spaghetti, sql
All three of the major cloud service providers have (or have announced) ‘have your cake and eat it’ versions of their services where data resides on premises whilst stuff is managed from a control plane in the cloud. AWS has Outposts (launched at re:Invent 2018 but still at the ‘sign up to learn more’ stage […]
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Tags: Anthos, aws, Azure, Azure Stack, cloud, GCP, google, Outposts
Cloudflare recently announced two additional capabilities for their “serverless” Workers: support for WebAssembly as an alternative to JavaScript, and a key-value store called Workers KV. WebAssembly will allow Workers to be written in compiled languages such as C, C++, Rust and Go. Workers KV provides an eventually consistent state storage mechanism hosted across Cloudflare’s global […]
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Tags: cloud, CloudFlare, FaaS, KV, stateful, WASM, WebAssembly, Workers
Multi Cloud Governance
This is one of those posts that started life on an email thread. It comes from a discussion on the topic of multi cloud governance for large enterprises. Why cloud? The answer is not ‘cloud is cheaper’, because it just isn’t. We know from Amazon’s financials that it’s gushing money because cloud is a high […]
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Tags: agility, CD, cloud, continuous delivery, cost, enterprise, governance, safety, speed
Last night we celebrated the 10th anniversary of CloudCamp London by celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Hitch-Hikers Guide to The Galaxy (HHGTG). It was a lot of fun – probably the best CloudCamp ever. I can’t say that I was there from the beginning, as I sadly missed the first CloudCamp London due to […]
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Tags: cloud, cloudcamp, community, HHGTG
TL;DR VMs on public cloud don’t provide the same level of control over sizing as on premises VMs, and this can have a number of impacts on how capacity is managed. Most importantly ‘T-shirt’ type sizing can provide sub optimal fit of workload to infrastructure, and the ability to over commit CPUs is very much […]
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Tags: aws, capacity management, cloud, containers, Kubernetes, Turbonomic, VMs, VMware
This is another post that’s a recycled email, one which started out with the title: ‘Our share of the cloud shared responsibility model (and the need for application intimacy)’ The original email came from a number of discussions in the run up to the DXC merger, and I must thank many of my CTO and […]
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Tags: cloud, DevOps, operations, serverless
Originally posted internally 6 Jan 2016: I’d meant to post this before the Christmas break as a guide to things to tinker with over the break, but then I hit the point where pretty much everybody seemed to already be on leave, and it was clearly too late…. So Happy New Year, if you’re not already […]
Filed under: cloud, code, Docker, DXC blogs | 2 Comments
Tags: Ansible, aws, cloud, code, config management, containers, Docker, Fork and Pull, git, github, infrastructure
Amongst the flurry of announcements at re:invent 2016 was the launch of a developer preview for a new F1 instance type. The F1 comes with one to eight high end Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to provide programmable hardware to complement the Intel E5 2686 v4 processors that come with up to 976 GiB […]
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Tags: aws, cloud, FPGA
Amazon have launched Lightsail, a Virtual Private Server (VPS) service to compete with companies like Digital Ocean, Linode and the multitude of Low End Box providers. The service bundles a basic Linux virtual machine with SSD storage and a bandwidth allowance. Pricing starts at $5/month with tiers by RAM allocation. Each larger configuration comes with […]
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Tags: amazon, aws, cloud, Lightsail, VPS
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