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API Friction Complicates Hunting for Cloud Vulnerabilities. SQL Makes it Simple

APIs can tell you everything about your cloud infrastructure, but they're hard to use and work in different ways. What if you could write simple SQL queries that call APIs for you and put results into a database? Steampipe, an open-source project that maps APIs to Postgres foreign tables, makes that dream come true. It's hard enough to reason over data. Acquiring it should be easy, and now it is.

Jon Udell
on Jul 06, 2022
Cloud

A Recipe to Migrate and Scale Monoliths in the Cloud

In this article, I want to present a simple cloud architecture that can allow an organization to take monolithic applications to the cloud incrementally without a dramatic change in the architecture. We will discuss the minimal requirements and basic components to take advantage of the scalability of the cloud.

Luciano Mammino
on May 13, 2022
Cloud

Serverless Solution to Offload Polling for Asynchronous Operation Status Using Amazon S3

This article proposes a solution to redirect the polling part to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - a highly available, scalable, and secured object storage service managed by Amazon Web Services public cloud provider (AWS). It will present a serverless implementation using AWS Lambda functions, but this is not mandatory if you want to use S3.

Cristian Gherghinescu
on Nov 01, 2021
Architecture & Design

Microsoft's Low-Code Strategy Paints a Target on UIPath and the Other RPA Companies

Microsoft is investing big in the low code space and has put together a collection of products that is hard for other companies to match, capped recently by the announcement of PowerFX. The target in their sights is the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companies such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism who are closing big deals with big enterprises.

Doug Hudgeon
on Jun 01, 2021
Cloud

Why AWS Lambda Pricing Has to Change for the Enterprise

AWS Lambda users pay only when their code is run. This can result in massive cost savings over long-running workloads. The advantages start to disappear quickly when AWS Lambda is employed for batch processing. Enterprises can gain significantly from the scalability of FaaS - yet a price comparison between EC2, Lambda, and Fargate, the AWS-managed container service, reveals an ugly truth.

Eoin Shanaghy
on Apr 08, 2021
Cloud

The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes

At QCon in March, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Red Hat, gave a talk on the evolution of distributed systems with Kubernetes. You might have an answer to that, and Ibryam has one too. At the end of the article, you will find out what he thinks the answer will be.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Mar 24, 2021
Development

InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year

As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.

Leandro Guimarães Arthur Casals Charles Humble Daniel Bryant Johan Janssen Manuel Pais Renato Losio Shane Hastie Steef-Jan Wiggers Thomas Betts
on Dec 28, 2020
Cloud

Taking Control of Confusing Cloud Costs

As cloud adoption accelerates, it’s increasingly important that organisations are able to come to grips with confusing cloud pricing and take back control of budgets to optimise spending. This article looks at the source of confusion, and how to get more clarity about costs.

Jonathan Shanks
on Nov 05, 2020
Cloud

The Right Way of Tracing AWS Lambda Functions

With an emphasis on distributed tracing, this article discusses best practices for gaining and leveraging observability into AWS Lambda functions.

Michele Mancioppi
on Aug 06, 2020
Cloud

Building .NET Applications for AWS

AWS provides a large set of online services. To use those services effectively, AWS offers .NET developers a complete SDK for building apps, and a set of toolkits for popular IDEs.

Bill Penberthy
on May 20, 2020
DevOps

What’s Next in DevOps?

The DevOps movement continues to grow and gain influence in the IT world and the business world at large. As the organisations become increasingly digital, the agility of our IT systems becomes critical to the life and health of the companies.

Andrew Davis
on Mar 27, 2020
Culture & Methods

Understanding Serverless: Tips and Resources for Building Servicefull Applications

There are still many misconceptions and concerns regarding serverless solutions. Vendor lock-in, tooling, cost management, cold starts, monitoring and the development lifecycle are all hot topics where serverless technologies are concerned. This article shares tips and resources to guide serverless newcomers towards building powerful, flexible and cost-effective serverless applications.

Christopher Paton
on Jul 08, 2019