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Serverless vs EC2 vs Containers: A Comparative Study
If you are looking for a Cloud Service framework for your business needs, then you have likely come across the terms Serverless, EC2, and Containers. While definitely related, they have unique differences that should be taken into consideration when considering your next project. As a result, the IT consulting services team has created a new resource in which compare and contrast for you the different models developers can choose from when deploying virtual infrastructure and applications.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 1.13.20
The team at Split recently released findings from its State of Feature Delivery research in which it found that while companies are releasing faster than ever, with almost 20% releasing features daily, releases aren’t issue-free with 82% uncovering bugs in production. Moreover, these issues can take a long time to remediate with 38% reporting an MTTR of a day or more. Simultaneously, Forrester Research calculated the value of improving customer experience by just one point, and found that in some industries (auto manufacturers, we’re looking at you) the difference could mean more than $1B in additional revenue.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 1.7.20
Happy New Year to our Flux7 blog readers. We’re happy to be back, starting the new year with new announcements from the world of DevOps, digital innovation, IT modernization, Agile and more. So, whether you are looking to move forward with a new resolution, or continue an ongoing evolution, we’re here with the latest news, trends, and use case stories to help. Don’t miss a beat and stay up-to-date in 2020 by subscribing to our blog today.
AWS Security Hub, Tableau Backup Solution Keep BioPharma Research Secure.
In our last blog, we shared how the Flux7 IT consulting services team developed and built an AWS-Based Tableau Infrastructure for a leading biopharmaceutical organization focused on curing cancer. (ICYMI, you can find it here.) As promised in that article, we’re sharing today a look at the security best-practices put into place in our AWS infrastructure in order to ensure the security of the company’s intellectual property, and patient’s personal data. In addition, we’ll share a unique backup solution we created for our customer’s Tableau application.
Flux7 Helps BioPharma Beat Cancer with AWS-Based Tableau Infrastructure
The American Cancer Society expects more than 1.7 million new cancer cases this year, with 606,880 Americans — or 1,660 people per day — expected to die of cancer. Addressing this serious challenge is our biopharmaceutical customer whose key weapon in the battle is data. In fact, industry research finds that a single cancer patient can generate up to one terabyte of data. Yet, synthesizing this data and finding meaningful insights can be challenging. Thus, this premier biopharmaceutical organization reached out to the IT consulting services team at Flux7 to help it design a network and resource infrastructure for Tableau Server cluster deployment for true data intelligence.
Our Take: Flux7 Engineers Highlight 2020 Technologies & Trends to Watch
Working with enterprises across a wide variety of industries, we have the unique opportunity to see which new technologies and trends are not just ‘hot’ but have the opportunity to make real business-impacting change in the year ahead. To that end, we polled our DevOps engineering team to find out exactly which trending technologies they think enterprises should have on their radar for the year ahead — and just as importantly why they think so. Without further ado, we present the Flux7 engineering list of technologies and trends to watch in 2020.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 12.17.19
“Nearly 40% of public company technology leaders believe organizations will fail within three years if they don’t keep pace with digital innovation” blares the headline from a Kong press release in which the company announced results of its recent 2020 Digital Innovation Benchmark report. In addition to this revelation, Kong found that 84% of those surveyed have already adopted microservices, with the primary drivers including increased security (56%), faster speed of development (55%), the ability to more quickly integrate new technology (53%) and increased infrastructure flexibility (53%).
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.