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.
Video: A Risk driven model for balancing Optimization and Innovation in the multi-speed enterprise
Organizations have been struggling with models to classify their applications, such as: ‘Systems of Record vs Engagement’, ‘Bi-modal IT’, ‘Multi-speed IT’, etc. However, these models do not leverage what really matters to business: Risk. This session will introduce a model for classifying applications based on Risk. At one end of the spectrum we have applications…
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…
Cloud Service Reliability (Part 2): Houston, we have an… outage!
Of all the phrases from movies that have become a part of pop culture – from ‘Luke, I am your Father’, to ‘Play it again, Sam’, none have made it more to daily usability than ‘Houston, we have a problem!’ from the movie Apollo 13. Reminding my son ‘Saransh, I am their father’ does not…
