Cloud agnostic automation and Terraform
Interesting post with best practices on using Terraform for cloud agnostic automation: https://spacelift.io/blog/terraform-best-practices
How to accelerate consistently with pipelines
Sharpening the axe before chopping down the tree is an essential part of software engineering. All too often, organizations miss their opportunity to optimize their processes because of unfamiliarity with automation. Nonetheless, it is important to optimize your CI/CD pipelines, for example with automated testing, automated change and automated compliance to speed up the delivery …
Why build your own multi-cloud developer platform?
Multi-cloud, combined with Kubernetes (K8s) container technology offers an interesting approach for financials to accelerate innovation. Best practices for solutions of this kind can be found in other industries. A cross-platform approach when building a self-service environment for product teams ensures long-term flexibility. Another pointer is that it may be important that standardization is encouraged …
Why we ‘shift-left’ with SecDevOps
Why we ‘shift-left’ with SecDevOps How safe is my bank? With cybercrime on the rise, financial consumers are – rightfully – concerned about the security systems of the organizations they put their trust in. The way we build our core banking systems should reflect these concerns. In fact: we should always strive to be named …
Moving to Kubernetes in an easy way: Konveyor!
Konveyor is a community of people passionate about helping others modernize and migrate their applications to the hybrid cloud by building tools, identifying patterns, and providing advice on how to break down monoliths, adopt containers, and embrace Kubernetes. Do take a look at their powerful tools to see if you can benefit from them: https://konveyor.io/. …
Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience
A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. The system needs to maintain a safety margin that is capable of absorbing failure via defense in depth, and failure modes need to be prioritized to take care of …
Continuous Deployment with Containers
The open source release of Docker in March 2013 triggered a major shift in the way in which the software development industry is aspiring to package and deploy modern applications. The creation of many competing, complimentary and supporting container technologies has followed in the wake of Docker, and this has lead to much hype, and …
The Secret to Amazons Success Internal APIs
In 2011 there was an accidental post from a Google employee about Google+. The internal rant was accidentally shared publicly and provides some insight into how Google approached APIs for their new Google + platform, as well as insight how Amazon adopted an internal service oriented architecture (SOA). The insight about how Google approached the …
Quick: DigitalOcean
In my search for good cloud providers I touched upon Microsoft’s Azure (as posted earlier) but also found DigitalOcean, a provider that promises simple cloud hosting, built for developers that can deploy a new SSD based cloud server in approximately 55 seconds. Ofcourse this an interesting challenge, so I tried it and it works! One …
How Complex Systems Fail
A very interesting presentation at Velocity 2012 by Richard Cook, “How Complex Systems Fail”.