Cloud-Native Architecture

Why Data Portability is Key to Cloud-Native Success
Nearly a third of the money businesses spend on cloud is going to waste. And with companies around the world feeling the economic pinch, including here in the UK, many are taking ...

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 ...

Containers Vs. Virtual Machines: Why the Paradigm Shift Matters
Why are organizations migrating from virtual machines (VMs) to containers? DH2i's Don Boxley explains ...

Overcoming the Challenges and Costs of Serverless
Since its inception in the late 1990s, the cloud has always been about reducing undifferentiated heavy lifting in IT. Services like AWS EC2 manage server hardware and give users elastic scaling to ...

Hybrid Cloud Architecture in 2023: How Does Kubernetes Fit In?
Hybrid cloud solutions have emerged as a favored choice for organizations aiming to enhance their IT infrastructure. By merging the advantages of public and private clouds, hybrid cloud architectures offer businesses flexibility, ...

Replace, Don’t Repair, for Higher Quality Cloud-Native Apps
In a recent article, I discussed an odd strategy for improving the quality of an application: Not testing it. The strategy is based on the philosophy that bugs and mistakes should not ...

The State of Cloud-Native Security
Cloud native is becoming the defacto development method for new applications and workloads. Yet, the cloud-native trend also brings accelerated deployment timelines, which could leave security gaps in CI/CD. Studies also find ...

Remote.It Adds Ability for Containers to Share Network Services
Remote.It this week added a Docker Network Jumpbox capability to enable containers to share access to network services via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Remote.It CEO Ryo Koyama said the network management platform ...

Kubernetes Vs. Serverless: Day 2 Operations
Kubernetes and serverless have emerged as two leading technologies that facilitate the development, deployment and maintenance of cloud-native applications. While Kubernetes specializes in the orchestration of containerized applications, serverless computing abstracts away ...