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When playing with clouds, expect to get wet…

It’s time to drop IaaS, PaaS and SaaS as broad definitions for cloud. They create false equivalence, confuse the market and get hijacked by…

Ant Stanley

Sep 11, 2017

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Ant Stanley

May 16, 2017

Ops, DevOps and PaaS … 2012 revisited

In 2012, Adrian Cockroft, then at Netflix, wrote a post called Ops, DevOps and PaaS (NoOps) at Netflix, laying out how operations at Netflix worked, in response to some heated debate on Twitter about the term NoOps.

Ant Stanley

Feb 6, 2017

Simple tips for a user group talk

So you’re giving your first user group talk? Here are a few simple tips to get your message across…

Ant Stanley

Jul 22, 2016

The last fourteen months …

On 21 May 2015 myself and Ryan Kroonenburg formed A Cloud Guru Ltd with the aim of taking Ryan’s popular Udemy courses on AWS Certification to the next level, and to focus on building a real community and taking it beyond a few courses on a learning marketplace. Ryan’s brother…

Your Buzzword for 2016: Serverless

What the hell is Serverless? To be honest, I can give you an answer, but I can’t guarantee it’s the…

JAWS is coming ..

Parse, Firebase and AWS are leading the next iteration in cloud computing .. Developers have been using Parse and Firebase for a number of years to rapidly build mobile and web applications that don’t require any servers. AWS joined the party with recent announcements of Lambda and API Gateway…

Ant Stanley

Jul 10, 2015

Servers are dead..

The inexorable move to serverless architectures took another step forward yesterday when Amazon Web Services announced API Gateway (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-api-gateway-build-and-run-scalable-application-backends/).

Ant Stanley

May 20, 2015

So how did I do?

The Gartner Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide is out! Last week I did a few predictions, based the scientific method of trolling twitter and putting my finger in the air. Saying that I don’t think I was too far out.

Ant Stanley

May 14, 2015

Prediction on the impending 2015 Gartner Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant

So here are my predictions for the 2015 Gartner Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant. It is based purely on my own ill-informed speculation, which means it will probably be more accurate than the UK General Election polls…

Ant Stanley

May 12, 2015

Stop managing IT, just stop it right now!

The modern IT organisation within an enterprise is filled with Service Delivery Managers, Project Managers, Solution Architects, Change Managers, Incident Managers, and every other role that frameworks like ITIL, TOGAF and Prince2 say we need.