The Benefits of Monolith Refactoring
It seems we are just now starting to achieve the kind of resiliency that you see in science fiction movies. Sudden spike in demand? A properly architected system will automatically scale up the components it needs in order to meet demand and then scale back down, just like in the movies. That’s because one of the greatest advantages of using the cloud is the near infinite scalability and elasticity you can achieve by using APIs and event-based architectures.
2019 AWS re:Invent and DevOps News Week in Review
Last week’s re:Invent ended with a keynote from Werner Vogels in which he took us behind the scenes of the AWS service, illustrating how AWS innovates for customer success. Building on the news we shared last week, today we’re sharing the last of many news announcements coming out of AWS. In case you missed Part 1 and 2 of our re:Invent news in review, you can check them out here: Flux7 Reviews AWS re:Invent Announcements and AWS re:Invent News Round-Up Continued.
AWS re:Invent News Round-Up Continued
While all the news from re:Invent is just too much for a single article, in today’s blog, we continue with our round-up of new features and services announced this week at the annual AWS re:Invent conference. We kick off with several quantum computing announcements that are closely aligned to the HPC and ML themes we discussed yesterday.
Flux7 Reviews AWS re:Invent Announcements
The recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event touted 12,000 attendees, a 50% growth from last year’s conference. Illustrating the continued strong interest in Kubernetes were several announcements at the show, like 3.0 of Helm, the CLI packaging tool for Kubernetes; Buoyant’s Dive, SaaS Control Plane for Kubernetes; and Rancher K3s, a certified Kubernetes distribution for edge workloads.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 12.2.19
The recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event touted 12,000 attendees, a 50% growth from last year’s conference. Illustrating the continued strong interest in Kubernetes were several announcements at the show, like 3.0 of Helm, the CLI packaging tool for Kubernetes; Buoyant’s Dive, SaaS Control Plane for Kubernetes; and Rancher K3s, a certified Kubernetes distribution for edge workloads.
How to Plan for a Potential Downturn: Lead with Innovation
As talk percolates of a potential downturn, a knee-jerk reaction for many companies is to tighten the belt, shrink budgets and re-evaluate staff resources. Yet, strategic innovation can fuel organizations through a downturn. Innovation combined with the business benefits a recession provides — like availability of great talent, cheaper operating costs and frankly, less competition — can provide just the right accelerant to retain or gain market share during a slowing period.
Flux7 Announces New, Evolved Range of Services
Today we announced a new and evolved portfolio of services to help enterprises design, architect and self-manage digital business technology platforms that support digital transformation and growth. I’m excited to share this new service portfolio with you. As an organization that embraces continuous improvement, we are constantly reflecting on how to best serve the business, technology and process requirements of our customers. The demands on our customers have evolved a great deal over the past couple years, and as a true partner, we’re evolving alongside them.
PCI Case Study: Hotelier Automates AWS Security Best-Practices
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard for any organization that processes credit card data. The standard was created to increase controls around cardholder data to reduce credit card fraud. While PCI has been around for almost 15 years now, new challenges around the standard emerge as companies migrate systems that are subject to PCI Auditing to the cloud. In today’s blog post, we’ll share the story of how a hospitality giant, worked with the AWS Consultants at Flux7 to build automated compliance into its AWS PCI-related systems.
New AWS CloudFormation Functionality Addresses Programmability, Reusability
Allowing you to programmatically describe and provision your infrastructure, AWS CloudFormation is a critical service in the AWS toolbox for anyone building infrastructure and applications in AWS. To further automate CloudFormation, at Flux7 we created dozens of custom scripts that generate CloudFormation templates and create Service Catalogs. Having worked with CloudFormation at all scales — from startups to Fortune organizations — we’ve encountered two CloudFormation challenges that we’re excited to see new CloudFormation capabilities address: Programmability and Reusability. These new features introduce streamlined workflows that allow us to abandon our custom tooling and in today’s article, we share three particular examples with you of how CloudFormation’s new capabilities can help reduce your customization efforts, too.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 11.18.19
“Today 99% of all new software projects have open source dependencies,” said GitHub CEO, Nat Friedman, as he opened GitHub Universe last week. At the show GitHub made several product announcements, as did partners, including the GA of code navigation for Ruby, Python, and Go repositories (with more languages coming soon), GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages; GitHub for mobile; custom filter notifications; and the beta of code search, code review assignment, and schedule reminders.
Flux7 Named to CRN Next-Gen 250 List for Third Year Running
We are honored to share that Flux7 has been once again named to the CRN Magazine 2019 Next-Gen 250 list — for the third consecutive year. In case you are unfamiliar, this annual list recognizes standout IT solution providers that embrace emerging technologies to adapt to an evolving marketplace. Those on the list (you can find the complete list at www.crn.com/nextgen250) have been identified by experts at The Channel Company as meeting their customers’ technology needs in areas such as business analytics, cloud computing, mobility, unified communications, virtualization, or other leading-edge technologies before they became mainstream.
Forrester Predictions 2020: Cloud HPC, App Modernization Growth Continues
Cloud computing has upended the infrastructure and operations landscape. While early benefits — like the ability to minimize infrastructure costs through a pay-as-you-go model — still apply, as cloud providers have grown the maturity of their offerings, enterprises are finding more advanced benefits like extreme scalability and reduced time-to-market. These benefits continue to lure customers to the cloud with Forrester reporting that 65% of North American enterprises now rely on public cloud platforms. This number is up from 60% as reported Forrester last year, a number that in itself was five times the percentage of just five years prior.