Category: Cloud

The ‘AWS Well Architected Framework’

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in November published an updated version of their AWS Well Architected Framework paper. This paper has existed for a while; however, this version was my first read of it, and I summarize the paper here. Personally, I believe it is an extremely comprehensive paper capturing the Architectural Thinking that Amazon believes…

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Slides: DevOps and Application Delivery for Hybrid Cloud

I had the opportunity to present yesterday (Nov 5th) at the DevOps Summit by Sys-Con in Santa Clara, CA. Here are my slides. The world is Hybrid. Organizations adopting DevOps are building Delivery Pipelines leveraging environments that are complex – spread across hybrid cloud and physical environments. Adopting DevOps hence required Application Delivery Automation that…

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DevOps as a Service (DaaS)?

In a recent post I posted on DevOps.com, I suggested the term DevOps as a Service (DaaS). Personally I am not a fan of the term. Mainly because DevOps is not a ‘Service’. It is an approach to achieve business objectives by adopting a set of capabilities, namely: Continuous Business Planning Collaborative Development Continuous Integration…

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IBM Pulse Session: Continuous delivery – accelerated with DevOps

I presented this session (#2727) at IBM Pulse last week in Las Vegas. This was a 20 minute ‘lightning talk’ delivered in the expo center theatre. (No, they did not allow me to do dramatic readings on my DevOps For Dummies book). Related Posts: Understanding DevOps: Understanding DevOps – Part 1: Defining DevOps Understanding DevOps –…

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