https://leeatchison.com 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).

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 ...

Technical Debt Isn’t All Bad
'Good' technical debt lets developers release a product sooner, collect user feedback and iterate for improvements ...

Cloud-Native Costs Can Fool You
The decision of whether to operate an application in the cloud or keep it on-premises involves a nuanced analysis ...

Cloud or Local Data? Which is Right for Your Cloud-Native App?
Selecting where to store your cloud-native application data—backend or frontend—is a critical step in creating your overall data architecture ...

Where is Your Data?
Where should you locate your data, and how does the location impact your customers and their expectations? ...

The Right Size for Cloud-Native Computing
There's an art to finding the appropriate size for each service—not too big or too small—to optimize your cloud-native application experience ...

Creating Your Cloud-Native Data Strategy
Lee Atchison explains how to make your application’s data strategy effective in a cloud-native environment ...