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….
Tag: Cloud Architecture
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…
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…