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Amazon Serverless computing or Google Function as a Service (FaaS) vs Microservices and Container Technologies

The component world is facilitating reuse and increased efficiency through container technology The evolution of container packaging of components has been a huge boon to the productivity of software development. As an example, a prominent cloud management company, RightScale, recently moved some of its technology to containers and found a more than 50% improvement in […]

An Examination of the Enterprise risks of building your Cloud stack

An Examination of the risks of building your enterprise stack This article refers to the kinds of risks CIO's need to look at, CTO's and others who have a concern for the long term issues associated with using any technology. These are risks Enterprises normally assess as part of technology adoption processes and PMO processes. […]

Simple Standards Crush Complex Ones

SOA :: API as PaaS :: Docker I frequently make an analogy of why API’s have supplanted SOA as being similar to reasons why Docker/Kubernetes is supplanting PaaS. SOA was architecturally superior and theoretically provided the same benefits as API’s. Many companies went down the SOA road but few ever implemented it very far. For instance, governance registry […]

How to Scale APIs in the cloud with Security, Reliability and Quality of Service

Companies are moving to the cloud faster than ever. The motivation is higher than ever. One of the companies that first put APIs in the cloud was Netflix and they realized many of the issues that others would face sooner than anyone else. Microservices The key takeaway from Netflix’s experience could be microservices. […]

IOT Success depends on Integration

I have posted a set of slides on current IoT and IIoT status with some interesting architecture diagrams and material on success in some markets. Here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/johnmathon1/iot-success-depends-on-integration

The future of transportation – Self-Driving Cars, Hyperloop and sex

Originally posted on UnderstandItAll:
The premise of the article Sex distracted Driving on the rise is that more and more people will use the spare time and energy of level 3 and 4 self-driving cars to perform sexual activities. Whether this is frequent enough to measurably increase the death or accident rate I think is highly…

Google’s goal of IT-less businesses

INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY(IT) Google announced recently part of its strategy to eventually overtake Amazon. The strategy has many facets and much is not disclosed yet but I believe the goal is achievable for many organizations. Of course you still have to build your applications. I am not talking about the part of IT related to building […]

Containers are becoming the Lingua Franca of the cloud — not a fad

As a CIO you may be wondering if this “Container” fad has legs or may go the way of some other fads. Are containers just another piece of technology you will have to worry about maintaining 10 years from now and wish you hadn’t gone down this path? Docker the leader of the pack and […]

Forget the Apps, Now the bots take over… Techcrunch

I was intrigued by this article in Techcrunch this morning: Forget Apps, Now The Bots Take Over A similar paradigm is emerging from IoT devices. The complexity of so many apps and so many devices is becoming mind-boggling. In order to deal with it I have started to use a number of automations to […]

Software Development in Disruption – The New Paradigm of Software

In this series of blogs I will talk about the changes in software development over the last 10 years that have revolutionized our industry. I will also talk about what I see as the important trends and technologies. You can find at the end of this blog a list of the articles in this series […]