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Using Architectural Analysis to Design and Deliver Microservices
For organizations that have amassed large sums of software complexity, taking
a microservices approach is the first step toward DevOps and continuous
improvement / development. Integrating system-level analysis with
microservices makes it easier to change and add functionality to applications
at any time without the increase of risk.
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Before you start big transformation projects or a cloud migration, make sure
these changes won't take down your entire organization.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Pavel Rabinovich, Sr.
Program Manager at CAST, discussed how microservices + system-level analysis
= the perfect combination in creating a nimble organization that can flex
with new technologies and demands from the business side.
Do... (more)
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Is SaaS Dead?
Both SaaS vendors and SaaS buyers are going "all-in" to hyperscale IaaS
platforms such as AWS, which is disrupting the SaaS value proposition. Why
should the enterprise SaaS consumer pay for the SaaS service if their data is
resident in adjacent AWS S3 buckets? If both SaaS sellers and buyers are
using the same cloud tools, automation and pay-per-transaction model offered
by IaaS platforms, then why not host the "shrink-wrapped" software in the
customers' cloud? Further, serverless computing, cloud marketplaces and
DevOps are changing the economics of hosting and delivering software.
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Will we see Application Server Providers (ASP2) that focus on delivering
great software hosted within "dedicated" cloud environments or within the
clients' cloud environment? Will the SaaS revenue model change from ... (more)
Don't go chasing waterfall ... development, that is. According to a recent
post by Madison Moore on Medium featuring insights from several software
delivery industry leaders, waterfall is - while still popular - not the best
way to win in the marketplace. With methodologies like Agile, DevOps and
Continuous Delivery becoming ever more prominent over the past 15 years or
so, waterfall is old news. Or, is it? Moore cites a recent study by Gartner:
"According to Gartner's IT Key Metrics Data report, the waterfall method as
employed on 56% of development efforts in 2015, with iterative methods used
in 21% of projects and agile in 23%." While Agile has been the buzzword of
the decade, it seems many organizations still haven't fully adopted the
practice yet. While many cite the fallbacks of waterfall development - no
feedback loops, rigid structure and requirements-based ... (more)
DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology
conferences and trade shows has announced the 22nd International CloudEXPO |
DXWorldEXPO "Call for Papers" is now open.
DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be
held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City and will bring together Cloud
Computing, FinTech and Blockchain, Digital Transformation, Big Data, Internet
of Things, DevOps, AI, Machine Learning and WebRTC to one location.
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DXWorldEXPO Speaking Proposals ▸ Here
Cloud Topics will include:
Machine Learning
Consumption-Based Billing Cognitive Computing
Cloud-Based Compliance Cloud Federation and Intercloud Virtual Private SaaS
(VPS) Hardware as a Service SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS Green IT Application
Portability Automation Mobility High-Performance Computing Cloudsourcing Grid
Sof... (more)
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It's Complicated - Choosing the Right AWS Services
Without a clear strategy for cost control and an architecture designed with
cloud services in mind, costs and operational performance can quickly get out
of control. To avoid multiple architectural redesigns requires extensive
thought and planning. Boundary (now part of BMC) launched a new public-facing
multi-tenant high resolution monitoring service on Amazon AWS two years ago,
facing challenges and learning best practices in the early days of the new
service.
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In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Michael Moran, a Senior Architect,
TrueSight R&D, at BMC Software, shared those lessons learned and how to
balance cost control with the many choices of service, storage, and compute
paradigms.
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Why Self-Organization Demands a New Reality
Guest post by Intellyx Principal Analyst Charles Araujo
"This all sounds great. But it's just not realistic."
This is what a group of five senior IT executives told me during a workshop I
held not long ago. We were working through an exercise on the organizational
characteristics necessary to successfully execute a digital transformation,
and the group was doing their ‘readout.'
The executives loved everything we discussed and agreed that if such an
environment existed, it would make transformation much easier. They just
didn't believe it was realistic.
Our job as analysts is not only to observe the world as it exists, but also
to paint an aspirational picture of how it might be.
As a result, we spend a lot of time and commit a lot of digital ink to
discussing emerging technologies and approaches, and their potential impact ... (more)
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Leveraging Cloud Skills Demand and Salary Indicators Data to Advance Earning
Potential
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and
Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to
help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills
relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive
visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential.
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Speaker Bio
Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the
Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at Dice, he takes a
metrics-driven approach to management. His experience in building and
managing high performance tea... (more)
You often hear the two titles of "DevOps" and "Immutable Infrastructure" used
independently.
In his session at DevOps Summit, John Willis, Technical Evangelist for
Docker, covered the union between the two topics and why this is important.
He provided an overview of Immutable Infrastructure then showed how an
Immutable Continuous Delivery pipeline can be applied as a best practice for
"DevOps." He ended the session with some interesting case study examples.
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John Willis is Technical Evangelist for Docker, which he joined after the
company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was
acquired by Docker in March 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall
2014, he was VP of Customer Enablement at Stateless Networks, and prior to
that he was Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the... (more)
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Continuous Deployment for Docker: Lessons Learned from Rolling Out a Real
Live Service
Most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in
particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease
management and make application delivery more flexible overall.
As with most new architectures, this dream takes a lot of work to become a
reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and
packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the
shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reduction in cost and
increase in speed.
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In her session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Stefana Muller, Vice
President of Datagrid Systems, shared the journey her engineering team took
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How Customers Are Operationalizing Their DevOps Tool Chain from
Planning-to-Ops
Without lifecycle traceability and visibility across the tool chain,
stakeholders from Planning-to-Ops have limited insight and answers to who,
what, when, why and how across the DevOps lifecycle. This impacts the ability
to deliver high quality software at the needed velocity to drive positive
business outcomes.
In his general session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Eric Robertson,
General Manager at CollabNet, will discuss how customers are able to achieve
a level of transparency that enables everyone from Planning-to-Ops to make
informed decisions based on business priority and leverage automation to
accelerate identifying issues and fast fix to drive continuous feedback and
KPI insight.
Speaker Bio
Eric Robertson is an industry expert who is responsible for the DevOps
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"DivvyCloud as a company set out to help customers automate solutions to the
most common cloud problems," noted Jeremy Snyder, VP of Business Development
at DivvyCloud, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June
6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology
conferences and trade shows has announced the conference tracks
for CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York.
DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be
held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction
of DXWorldEXPO within the program. Successful transformation requires a
laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that
enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term.
A total of 88% of... (more)
@MicroservicesExpo Stories By Pat Romanski For organizations that have amassed large sums of software complexity, taking a microservices approach is the first step toward DevOps and continuous improvement / development. Integrating system-level analysis with microservices makes it easier to change and add functionality to applications at any time without the increase of risk. Before you start big transformation projects or a cloud migration, make sure these changes won’t take down your entire organization. Apr. 23, 2018 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,050 | By Flint Brenton Don’t go chasing waterfall … development, that is. According to a recent post by Madison Moore on Medium featuring insights from several software delivery industry leaders, waterfall is – while still popular – not the best way to win in the marketplace. With methodologies like Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery becoming ever more prominent over the past 15 years or so, waterfall is old news. Or, is it? Moore cites a recent study by Gartner: “According to Gartner’s IT Key Metrics Data report, ... Apr. 23, 2018 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,862 | By Yeshim Deniz Without a clear strategy for cost control and an architecture designed with cloud services in mind, costs and operational performance can quickly get out of control. To avoid multiple architectural redesigns requires extensive thought and planning. Boundary (now part of BMC) launched a new public-facing multi-tenant high resolution monitoring service on Amazon AWS two years ago, facing challenges and learning best practices in the early days of the new service.
Apr. 23, 2018 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,598 | By Elizabeth White You often hear the two titles of "DevOps" and "Immutable Infrastructure" used independently. In his session at DevOps Summit, John Willis, Technical Evangelist for Docker, covered the union between the two topics and why this is important. He provided an overview of Immutable Infrastructure then showed how an Immutable Continuous Delivery pipeline can be applied as a best practice for "DevOps." He ended the session with some interesting case study examples. Apr. 23, 2018 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,145 | By Pat Romanski Both SaaS vendors and SaaS buyers are going “all-in” to hyperscale IaaS platforms such as AWS, which is disrupting the SaaS value proposition. Why should the enterprise SaaS consumer pay for the SaaS service if their data is resident in adjacent AWS S3 buckets? If both SaaS sellers and buyers are using the same cloud tools, automation and pay-per-transaction model offered by IaaS platforms, then why not host the “shrink-wrapped” software in the customers’ cloud? Further, serverless computing, cl... Apr. 23, 2018 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,958 | By Liz McMillan  All organizations that did not originate this moment have a pre-existing culture as well as legacy technology and processes that can be more or less amenable to DevOps implementation. That organizational culture is influenced by the personalities and management styles of Executive Management, the wider culture in which the organization is situated, and the personalities of key team members at all levels of the organization. This culture and entrenched interests usually throw a wrench in the work... Apr. 23, 2018 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,074 | By Liz McMillan  "We view the cloud not as a specific technology but as a way of doing business and that way of doing business is transforming the way software, infrastructure and services are being delivered to business," explained Matthew Rosen, CEO and Director at Fusion, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), held June 7-9 at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Apr. 23, 2018 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 13,267 | By Liz McMillan Without lifecycle traceability and visibility across the tool chain, stakeholders from Planning-to-Ops have limited insight and answers to who, what, when, why and how across the DevOps lifecycle. This impacts the ability to deliver high quality software at the needed velocity to drive positive business outcomes.
In his general session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Eric Robertson, General Manager at CollabNet, will discuss how customers are able to achieve a level of transparency that e... Apr. 23, 2018 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,224 | By Pat Romanski  We all know that end users experience the internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices - not doing so will be a path to eventual ... Apr. 23, 2018 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,921 | By Pat Romanski "DivvyCloud as a company set out to help customers automate solutions to the most common cloud problems," noted Jeremy Snyder, VP of Business Development at DivvyCloud, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Apr. 23, 2018 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,311 | By Elizabeth White  We all know that end users experience the Internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices – not doing so will be a path to eventual b... Apr. 23, 2018 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,066 | By Charles Araujo "This all sounds great. But it's just not realistic."
This is what a group of five senior IT executives told me during a workshop I held not long ago. We were working through an exercise on the organizational characteristics necessary to successfully execute a digital transformation, and the group was doing their ‘readout.'
The executives loved everything we discussed and agreed that if such an environment existed, it would make transformation much easier. They just didn't believe it was reali... Apr. 23, 2018 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,600 | By Liz McMillan  "Opsani helps the enterprise adopt containers, help them move their infrastructure into this modern world of DevOps, accelerate the delivery of new features into production, and really get them going on the container path," explained Ross Schibler, CEO of Opsani, and Peter Nickolov, CTO of Opsani, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Apr. 23, 2018 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,831 | By Liz McMillan Most companies are adopting or evaluating container technology - Docker in particular - to speed up application deployment, drive down cost, ease management and make application delivery more flexible overall. As with most new architectures, this dream takes a lot of work to become a reality. Even when you do get your application componentized enough and packaged properly, there are still challenges for DevOps teams to making the shift to continuous delivery and achieving that reduction in cost ... Apr. 23, 2018 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,322 | By Liz McMillan  Your homes and cars can be automated and self-serviced. Why can't your storage? From simply asking questions to analyze and troubleshoot your infrastructure, to provisioning storage with snapshots, recovery and replication, your wildest sci-fi dream has come true.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Dan Florea, Director of Product Management at Tintri, provided a ChatOps demo where you can talk to your storage and manage it from anywhere, through Slack and similar services with... Apr. 23, 2018 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,151 | By Jason Bloomberg  Many organizations are now looking to DevOps maturity models to gauge their DevOps adoption and compare their maturity to their peers. However, as enterprise organizations rush to adopt DevOps, moving past experimentation to embrace it at scale, they are in danger of falling into the trap that they have fallen into time and time again.
Unfortunately, we've seen this movie before, and we know how it ends: badly.
Apr. 22, 2018 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,153 | By Elizabeth White  "I focus on what we are calling CAST Highlight, which is our SaaS application portfolio analysis tool. It is an extremely lightweight tool that can integrate with pretty much any build process right now," explained Andrew Siegmund, Application Migration Specialist for CAST, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Apr. 22, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,294 | By Liz McMillan  Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Red Hat's Chief Archi... Apr. 22, 2018 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 13,706 | By Elizabeth White In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential.
Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D... Apr. 22, 2018 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 13,292 | By Yeshim Deniz  We all know that end users experience the internet primarily with mobile devices. From an app development perspective, we know that successfully responding to the needs of mobile customers depends on rapid DevOps – failing fast, in short, until the right solution evolves in your customers' relationship to your business. Whether you’re decomposing an SOA monolith, or developing a new application cloud natively, it’s not a question of using microservices - not doing so will be a path to eventual ... Apr. 22, 2018 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,721 |
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Docker is sweeping across startups and enterprises alike, changing the way we build and ship applications. It's the most prominent and widely known software container platform, and it's particularly useful for eliminating common challenges when collaborating on code (like the "it works on my machine" phenomenon that most devs know all too well). With Docker, you can run and manage apps side-by-side - in isolated containers - resulting in better compute density. It's something that many developers don't think about, but you can even use Docker with ASP.NET.
The goal of Microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase system safety as scale increases. Microservices being modular these are faster to change and enables an evolutionary architecture where systems can change, as the business needs change. Microservices can scale elastically and by being service oriented can enable APIs natively. Microservices also reduce implementation and release cycle time and enables continuous delivery. This paper provides a logical overview of the Microservices Reference Architecture that highlights various sub systems needed to support Microservic...
JetBlue Airways uses virtual environments to reduce software development costs, centralize performance testing, and create a climate for continuous integration and real-time monitoring of mobile applications.
The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer performance engineering case study discussion examines how JetBlue Airways in New York uses virtual environments to reduce software development costs, centralize performance testing, and create a climate for continuous integration and real-time monitoring of mobile applications.
The purpose of this article is draw attention to key SaaS services that are commonly overlooked during contact signing that are essential to ensuring they meet the expectations and requirements of the organization and provide guidance and recommendations for process and controls necessary for achieving quality SaaS contractual agreements.
When we talk about the impact of BYOD and BYOA and the Internet of Things, we often focus on the impact on data center architectures. That's because there will be an increasing need for authentication, for access control, for security, for application delivery as the number of potential endpoints (clients, devices, things) increases. That means scale in the data center.
What we gloss over, what we skip, is that before any of these "things" ever makes a request to access an application it had to execute a DNS query. Every. Single. Thing. 
Containers, microservices and DevOps are all the rage lately. You can read about how great they are and how they’ll change your life and the industry everywhere. So naturally when we started a new company and were deciding how to architect our app, we went with microservices, containers and DevOps. About now you’re expecting a story of how everything went so smoothly, we’re now pushing out code ten times a day, but the reality is quite different.
"CHEETAH is not just a training company. What we are trying to do is something fun – how to learn the cloud in a fun way. So you can learn Docker, Cloud Foundry, a lot of complex technologies but in a fun way," explained Etienne Cointet, CEO of App2Cloud, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
For over a decade, Application Programming Interface or APIs have been used to exchange data between multiple platforms. From social media to news and media sites, most websites depend on APIs to provide a dynamic and real-time digital experience. APIs have made its way into almost every device and service available today and it continues to spur innovations in every field of technology.
There are multiple programming languages used to build and run applications in the online world. And just like every other language, there is always the need for an interpreter when trying to communicate with...
How is DevOps going within your organization? If you need some help measuring just how well it is going, we have prepared a list of some key DevOps metrics to track. These metrics can help you understand how your team is doing over time.
The word DevOps means different things to different people. Some say it a culture and every vendor in the industry claims that their tools help with DevOps. Depending on how you define DevOps, some of these metrics may matter more or less to you and your team.
The general concepts of DevOps have played a central role advancing the modern software delivery industry. With the library of DevOps best practices, tips and guides expanding quickly, it can be difficult to track down the best and most accurate resources and information. In order to help the software development community, and to further our own learning, we reached out to leading industry analysts and asked them about an increasingly popular tenet of a DevOps transformation: collaboration.
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