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).

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 ...

Cloud-Native Complexity and its Role in Technical Debt
One common source of excess unmanaged technical debt is application complexity. Here's how to make it manageable ...

The Ultimate Value of Cloud-Native Architectures
A cloud-native architecture allows for massive scale in production while maintaining a highly agile development process ...

Getting Data Architecture Right in Cloud-Native Apps
An incomplete, inappropriate or ill-considered data architecture can have serious consequences on your application and your company ...

Striving for Higher Quality Cloud-Native Apps by Leveraging Chaos
One technique that can improve long-term cloud-native application quality and reliability is chaos-driven infrastructure ...