On To My Next Adventure, Automation … Anywhere
This story of why I chose to join my new company and not why I left my old company. This week I started as the VP & Regional CTO –…
The (Near) Future Is About Low Touch Operations
In the title I specify the “near future” so it won’t be taken as a vision for the long term in which I believe autonomous, self-healing systems will most likely…
Enterprise Architecture
PaaS
Service Oriented Architecture
Software Development
Solution Architecture
The Two Faces of Microservices
Microservices (μServices) are a fascinating evolution of the Distributed Object Computing (DOC) paradigm. Initial design of DOC attempted to solve the problem of simplifying developing complex distributed applications by applying…
Time for the Tail to Stop Wagging the Dog
Here’s a novel, but controversial statement, “it’s time for the CEO, COO, CIO to start to take joint responsibility for application platform decisions.” For too many years now technical meritocracy…
Cloud Native: The Next Major Developer Paradigm Shift
Every decade for the past forty years we’ve seen a major paradigm shift in software development. The next major paradigm shift for software developers—cloud native application development—is occurring now and…
Making Financial Sense of PaaS
As a consultant one of the common artifacts I’m frequently asked for is a cost estimate for a statement of work. Needless to say being the “cloud guy” these requests…
Software Testing is Too Critical to Overlook
Today’s software testing practices are abysmal. You’re a major provider of health insurance services to general consumers. Your website is a primary means of interacting with your customers and allowing…
Why Platform-as-a-Service is the Operating System Of The Cloud
When I took my operating systems fundamentals course in college I was taught that an operating system provides very specific capabilities that provides users with access compute resources for building…
DevOps Master: Building Bridges Between Dev and Ops
I will admit I have been a strong opponent of those listing roles and organizations as DevOps. Primarily because DevOps is a way to do something and creating a role…
Cloud Needs Application Architects To Understand IaaS
Application development has been moving in the direction of platform abstraction. That is, the need for developers to have detailed knowledge of the infrastructure that the application was being deployed…