Cognitive overload is a brute fact of modern life. It is not going to disappear. In almost every facet of our work life, and in more and more of our domestic life, the jobs we need to do and the activity spaces we have in which to perform those jobs are ecologies saturated with overload….
Category: Cloud
Multi-Cloud Snake Oil
tl;dr Most multi-cloud management solutions are pure snake oil. Buyer beware. And you most likely don’t even need Multi-cloud. Let’s take the scenario of an online Flower vendor. They sell bouquets and arrangements of Flowers via e-commerce and deliver them across the country. They have two big events year which account for around 92% of…
Understanding Observability
Last week my understanding of Observability went up astronomically. In fact, it was taken to an all new dimension, all by one tweet by Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy): Observability, short and sweet: – can you understand whatever internal state the system has gotten itself into? …just by inspecting and interrogating its output? …even if (especially if)…
Cloud and DevOps Transformation: My video interview with Alan Shimel of DevOps.com
Alan and I talk about DevOps and Cloud transformation in the enterprise. We discuss the role of VMs, Microservices & Containers and also Skytap.
Cloud Service Reliability – Part 3: ‘Antifragile’ – When DevOps met SRE
In part 2 of this blog series I introduced the concept of Antifragile systems (or services). Systems that are neither fragile or robust. They are systems that thrive in chaos. That are architected, developed, deployed and run from the ground up in a manner to achieve the SLOs of availability and responsiveness expected from today’s…
