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 marketeers*.
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.
So you’re giving your first user group talk? Here are a few simple tips to get your message across…
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…
What the hell is Serverless? To be honest, I can give you an answer, but I can’t guarantee it’s the…
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…
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/).
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.
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…
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.
