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Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery

Successful projects start with robust discovery. What if your project is modernizing your tangled old legacy system or migrating all your workloads to the cloud? This article presents a guided approach to starting your next architecture modernization project with a Domain-Driven Discovery (DDD), illustrated with a medical supply company that is migrating its core systems to the cloud.

Ryan Shriver
on May 12, 2023
Architecture & Design

Banking on Thousands of Microservices

Lessons learned building a banking platform, starting from technological choices like using Cassandra and Kubernetes in the early days to maintain the speed of execution through platform engineering and developer experience. With some mistakes and incidents along the way.

Suhail Patel
on May 08, 2023
Cloud

Reducing Cloud Infrastructure Complexity

Cloud computing adoption has taken the world by storm, and is accelerating unabated. According to Flexera’s annual State of the Cloud Report for 2020, 93% of respondents used multi or hybrid cloud strategies. This article examines different aspects of cloud infrastructure complexity, and approaches to mitigate it.

Nati Shalom
on Nov 15, 2021
Architecture & Design

Realtime APIs: Mike Amundsen on Designing for Speed and Observability

In a recent apidays webinar, Mike Amundsen, trainer and author of the recent O’Reilly book “API Traffic Management 101”, presented “High Performing APIs: Architecting for Speed at Scale”. Drawing on recent research by IDC, he argued that organisations will have to drive systemic changes in order to meet the upcoming increased demand of consumption of business services via APIs.

Daniel Bryant
on Aug 07, 2020
Cloud

Adoption of Cloud Native Architecture, Part 2: Stabilization Gaps and Anti-Patterns

In this second part of cloud native adoption article series, the authors discuss the anti-patterns to watch out for when using microservices architecture in your applications. They also discuss how to balance between architecture and technology stability by not reinventing the wheel in every new application and at the same time, avoiding arbitrary reuse of technologies.

Srini Penchikala Marcio Esteves
on May 27, 2020
Cloud

Adoption of Cloud-Native Architecture, Part 1: Architecture Evolution and Maturity

In this article, authors Srini Penchikala and Marcio Esteves discuss what organizations should assess when adopting cloud native architectures for hosting their applications on cloud. It focuses on architecture hosting models. They also discuss how architecture patterns like microservices, containers, serverless, and service mesh can help with organizational adoption of cloud native solutions.

Srini Penchikala Marcio Esteves
on Nov 26, 2019
DevOps

DevOps and Cloud as Catalysts for Business Performance

The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps presents the capabilities and practices that contribute to software development and organizational performance. This year, DevOps has crossed the chiasm, while a well-implemented cloud computing strategy helps deliver superior results contributing to speed, stability, and availability.

Shaaron A Alvares Nicole Forsgren
on Oct 30, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Unscaled

The book Unscaled by Hemant Taneja explores how startup companies can create capabilities similar or stronger than large companies by unscaling. They compete by renting space and functionality in the cloud, which makes them cheaper and more flexible. They are able to innovate and create better products by using data and exploiting the possibilities that sophisticated AI is increasingly offering.

Ben Linders Hemant Taneja
on Jun 02, 2018
Cloud

Taking an Application-Oriented Approach to Cloud Adoption

Taking an infrastructure-centric approach to cloud adoption can lead to unrealized benefits. Architect Amit Kumar outlines eleven principles to consider when introducing cloud services into your architecture.

Amit Kumar
on May 09, 2017
Article Series: Cloud Migration

In this series of articles, you get practical advice from those who have experience helping companies successfully move to cloud environments. There is an area that deserves significant attention, and we hope that you'll participate in the conversation.

Richard Seroter
on Jul 19, 2015
A Brave New World of Testing? An Interview with Google's James Whittaker

Cloud Computing is creating substantial changes to the usual way of doing business. How should organizations leverage this approach to improve testing and quality assurance of software? To get an answer, author Forrest Shull spoke with James Whittaker from Google about cloud computing testing.

Forrest Shull
on Aug 06, 2012
Standardizing the Cloud for Security

Orlando Scott-Cowley discusses security in the cloud and the need for industry standards to lower the barriers to entry while ensuring that customer data is safe.

Orlando Scott-Cowley
on Jul 05, 2012