How I Simplified My Lambda Deployments
By Slobodan Stojanovic Serverless functions are amazing. I remember how impressed I was the first time I created a serverless image resizing tool. Just a few minutes of programming, and…
Thoughts at the End of My 7-Year AWS reInvent Cycle
Competing with Partners, the Cost of Cloud, and Looking Forward to the Next 7 Years This was my 7th re:Invent. Which, if you know your stuff or do some quick…
Next Week, Vegas! AWS re:Invent and Walking in a Cloud of Geeks
By Ofir Nachmani, CEO, IOD It’s re:Invent time. Which means … it’s re:Invent preview blog time. This will be my 7th reinvent. I’ve been at every single one since the…
How to Make Sure Your Next AWS Summit Is Not a Waste of Time
By John Fahl, IOD Expert Tech conventions are about showcasing what's new, claiming victories, and bringing the industry together. AWS Summits are no different. Sure, they are a “diet” version…
The Landlords of the Net, aka Oligopoly in the Cloud
By Ofir Nachmani, CEO, IOD (Edited by: Jen Maidenberg) Did you see the film The Founder? It tells the success story behind fast food giant McDonald’s. Decades ago, McDonald’s founder,…
10 Things I Learned Shipping an Ancient Data Center to AWS (Part 2)
By John Fahl, IOD Expert Moving a data center is hard. It takes a ton of work to move years of cruft, drift, tech debt, and forgotten relics to a…
10 Things I Learned Shipping an Ancient Data Center to AWS (Part 1)
By John Fahl, IOD Expert
When we got to the consulting gig, they told us they wanted to do DevOps. They said they wanted to be like <insert “awesome streaming video provider” here>. What they had was several data centers filled with several servers using OSs older than 10 years (some even 20+ years old).
They also relied on some real relics like NIS (yup…this is still a thing …), had deep vendor lock-in, massive old, stagnant clusters, manually built applications (most having been created a decade earlier), and armies of contractors overseeing it all.
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Just a Few AWS Tricks I Learned on the Way
By John Fahl, IOD Expert
Once you work with AWS long enough, you realize it changes all the time.
Some things that were difficult last year are now easy.
Who remembers ELB IPs moving on you? Normally, when you use a CNAME (like you’re supposed to) it doesn’t matter, but I’ve moved a few apps that used hardcoded IPs in old applications. Now, you can just abandon the legacy ELB and use their NLB for that issue. NLB and ALB were big improvements over traditional ELB.
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6 re:Invents Later, AWS Is Still the Only Serious Cloud Player
By Ofir Nachmani, CEO, IOD
It’s beautiful here in Vegas. It always is.
But headed into my sixth AWS re:Invent, I have to admit, I wasn’t convinced the event was going to be as spectacular as the scenery. Sure 43,000 attendees is impressive — the number grows every year. And yes, Amazon has a reputation for surprising us with announcements of new innovations. But, after working with AWS since 2008 and writing thousands of articles about the cloud giant, as well as those seeking to compete with them, I wasn’t sure anything they would introduce would be showstopping for me.
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It’s Time to Bring re:Invent to Europe
By Ofer Prossner, VP, Operations, IOD
November is here, and the word on everyone’s lips in our nice little-but-getting-bigger-every-day industry community this month is AWS re:Invent 2017. Of course, IOD will be represented at re:Invent, but as the IOD management team member based in Europe, I have to say it’s quite the schlep getting from Berlin to Vegas.
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