This month was rife with big cloud news from major leadership changes, space travel battles of the Titans, cloud disappointments, and data privacy wars. We’ve rounded up the most interesting…
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a critical component of the modern application delivery toolchain that enables software companies to manage their IT infrastructure using machine-readable configuration files. These files contain…
In the previous post in this two-part series, I introduced the basic concepts of cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform and GCP. I also showed how to set up a GCP…
Today, every company is leveraging technology to innovate, streamline operations, and create value for their customers. When it comes to software engineering, developers have a natural and prominent role in…
With cloud deployment, everything you do to build an application becomes code, whether business logic, configuration, infrastructure, or some other component. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enables you to provision your…
In the first part of this two-post series, I explained the core concepts behind multicloud networking. I also discussed necessary protocols, the relevant networking services offered by the three major…
In 2019, Gartner predicted that by 2021 up to 75% of large and midsize organizations would be running some variation of multicloud environments. This IT trend is due in part…
Serverless comes with the promise of infinite scalability, but what does this mean in practice? Services like AWS Lambda don’t magically scale up to thousands of parallel invocations in an…
In the day-to-day running of IOD -- whether it’s answering Slack messages from our operations team or fielding incoming queries about our services or the reconciling of invoices -- I…
(Don't miss Part I in this series on choosing the right cloud provider when it comes to databases.) Prior to container technology, making applications run on different environments was one…
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