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
The Principle of Least Privilege in Cloud-Native Applications
Modern applications require modern security. Public cloud vendors are highly motivated to ensure their platforms are not the subject of security attacks that chip away at customers’ trust and well-being. In cloud-native ...
Surviving the Riskiest Part of Your Cloud-Native Migration
During any IT transformation project, the desired end goal is always the same: A more agile, scalable, supportable and cost-efficient application that better meets the needs of your customers. The journey through ...
What You Need to Learn to Become a Cloud-Native Architect
What is a cloud architect? What does a cloud architect do that’s different from a developer? What skills does someone need to move from a developer role to a cloud architect role—especially ...
Avoid This Common Cloud-Native Migration Trap
Migrating your software applications to the cloud requires significant development effort and testing, along with the risk of introducing complex infrastructure changes. Moving to a cloud-native architecture is even more involved. Not ...
Cloud-Native Architectures Require Specially Skilled Architects
Designing and building a cloud-native application requires special skills and experience beyond the basics required to design and build any software application. Building cloud-native applications requires software architects specially trained in developing ...
Cloud-Native Computing is Good for the Environment
Building cloud-native applications offers many advantages for the modern enterprise—including reduced costs, improved efficiency, greater scalability, easier development and simplified support. But did you know that building cloud-native applications is also good ...
What Modern Cloud-Native Apps are Made Of
What is a modern application? A modern application is a real-time, SaaS-based software application that creates an engaging customer experience. A modern, cloud-native application provides instantaneous access and seamless collaboration and has ...
You Can’t Afford To Not Be in the Cloud
Consider the following story: “I went into my CEO’s office. Our CEO is a very driven, technical, hands-on CEO. All technical decisions have to go through him before the company goes forward ...
Are You Ready for Cloud-Native?
The world is embracing cloud-native application architectures. Last year, Gartner predicted that more than 95% of all new applications will be cloud-native by 2025. This is up from only 30% in 2021 ...
