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10 Mandatory Services You Should Consider Adopting in AWS and Azure

Thanks to the cloud revolution, the software engineering industry went from struggling to maintain IT infrastructure on-premise to selling software for subscription within a decade. The cloud saves organizations a lot of money while giving them the agility and elasticity they need. AWS and Azure are the leading cloud providers that lead the market in providing on-demand cloud computing services and platforms to customers. Choosing between these two providers should depend on IT infrastructure, the size of the business, and long-term goals. But more importantly, organizations must decide whether the services of these two providers are compatible with them. Let us look at ten mandatory services of AWS and Azure and compare them with each other so that you can make a calculated decision as to which cloud provider to choose from the two.

VNET vs. VPC

The first step in any cloud journey is choosing a private network provided by cloud providers. Microsoft’s Virtual Network (VNET) and Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) are the most commonly used private networks in the world. These two services form the foundation for provisioning resources and services in the cloud. These private networks have a lot of similarities and a few variations. Some of the similarities between them are the segregation of networks into subnets, offering different gateways for different connectivity purposes, and allowing hybrid connections. They both use non-globally routable CIDR from the private IPv4 address ranges. On the other hand, VNET and VPC vary in only two aspects: routing table and security.

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Cloud-Native Everything

What’s in a (Buzz)word?

I often have a love-hate relationship with buzzwords. On the one hand, they are usually so grossly abused and promiscuously thrown around as to almost lose all practical meaning. And yet, paradoxically, they often seem to be the only way to succinctly convey some concept.

Cloud-native is exactly such a buzzword. Lately, everything and anything seems to be labeled cloud-native. Don’t believe me? Google the phrases “cloud-native hardware,” “cloud-native sales specialist,” and "cloud-native accounting firm.” It’s an epidemic.

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Open Source and Deforestation

A forest is a complex ecosystem of plants, animals microorganisms, non-living material, all balanced delicately by nature. It requires the right geography, the right soil, the right amount of rain and sun, and decades to build a forest.

So is open source. An open source project is a delicate ecosystem of contributors, reviewer, users, supporting organizations, all balanced by a feeling of a community. It requires the right ideas at the right time, the right group of developers, the right technology, an enormous amount of dedication and passion, and years to build a project.

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Does the Cloud Kill Open Source? [Video]

I had a great time at the last Seattle Scalability Meetup. I’ve also just finished processing and fixing up the video from this last Seattle Scalability Meetup. I feel like I’ve finally gotten the process of streaming and getting things put together post-stream so that I can make them available almost immediately afterward.

Here @rseroter gives us a full review of various business models, open source licenses, and a solid situational report on cloud providers and open source.

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Using DevOps Managed Services to Improve Operations With Automated Deployments and Data

In the Digital Revolution, timelines for product delivery and information analysis are slim. Customers set the pace by consuming products and information on-demand — their way. This places immense pressure on businesses to deliver continuously and reliably to satisfy the rapidly escalating demand for all types of goods. Software is the center of the business universe, vital to all aspects of operations. Building and reliably delivering software is now vital to short and long-term success.

According to IDC, as of 2017 more than 580 million software applications were on the market, and another 500 million applications are expected to surface by 2022. Even if they are off by a couple of hundred million, this volume presents a tremendous amount of stress on operations. Our own research indicates that there are more than 100 million companies and government organizations worldwide (~30% in the United States).