Lee Atchison is an author and recognized thought leader in cloud computing and application modernization with more than three decades of experience, working at modern application organizations such as Amazon, AWS, and New Relic. Lee is widely quoted in many publications and has been a featured speaker across the globe. Lee’s most recent book is Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media). https://leeatchison.com

Is AWS Lambda a Replacement For Servers?
Function-as-a-service is great for certain classes of problems, but for some types of computation, FaaS is, quite simply, a bad fit ...

How to Avoid Cloud-Native Complexity
The more choices users have in your cloud-native application, the more complex it gets. Uncontrolled complexity, like entropy, always increases ...

Are You Giving DNS the Respect it Deserves?
The backbone of all modern, cloud-native applications is DNS, and ignoring it can kill your business. Are you giving it the respect it deserves? ...

Should Cloud-Native Applications Use a Monorepo?
Does every system or component in a cloud-native app need its own code repository? Or can they all share a single code repository? ...

Scheduled Maintenance? That’s Another Way of Saying Technical Debt
No truly modern, cloud-native application should require downtime to perform a product upgrade or other routine maintenance ...

How to Build and Manage a Cloud Center of Excellence
For organizations devoted to harnessing the full potential of cloud-native applications, the establishment of a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) is a common first step ...

Why Maintenance Windows Don’t Work for Cloud-Native Apps
Whether planned and expected or unplanned and unexpected, downtime is downtime ...

Stop Turning Success Into Failure With Microservices
MIcroservices can help you avoid business failure because of huge, monolithic application architecture ...

Can a Cloud Center of Excellence Help You Become Cloud Native?
A cloud center of excellence (CCoE) can be an extremely valuable asset for an organization looking to build and migrate cloud-native applications ...

Cloud Isn’t That Simple Anymore: Polycloud Vs. Sky Computing
Multi-cloud—a strategy for employing multiple cloud providers—is a common strategy used by cloud-native applications. Many applications make use of both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and another cloud provider, such as Google Cloud ...

