complexity

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 ...

3 Ways to Offset Kubernetes Complexity
Kubernetes has emerged as the leading open source container orchestration system. According to CNCF’s latest Cloud Native Survey, up to 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes. But the same report ...

Agility Vs. Complexity in Cloud-Native Applications
One of the main motivations for using cloud-native application methodologies is to simplify our applications and their infrastructures. Cloud-native methodologies are designed around creating larger and more sophisticated applications without unnecessarily increasing ...

Choice Vs. Complexity in Cloud-Native Applications
Simplicity is at the heart of our desire to use cloud-native application methodologies. Service-based applications are designed to decrease complexity in individual service components. Using cloud-native infrastructure focuses and reduces our available ...

Survey Suggests Devs not Completely Sold on Kubernetes
A survey of 1,000 developers finds half are using containers, with nearly three-quarters (73%) of those developers employing Kubernetes in a production environment. However, about half the respondents (47%) also noted the ...

The Biggest Enemy in a Software-Defined World: Complexity
Ten years ago this August, Marc Andreessen made his famous declaration that “software is eating the world.” In the decade since, the “dramatic and broad technological and economic shift” that Andreessen illuminated ...

Survey Sees Kubernetes Challenges Taking a Toll
While adoption of Kubernetes continues to accelerate, a survey of 300 IT professionals in the U.S. published this week finds more organizations than ever are finding it a challenge to master what ...

Docker Containers Are Hard, Just Like All Great Technologies
As technology becomes better, it tends to become more complex and harder to manage. That’s certainly true in the case of Docker containers, which are probably the most complex software framework yet ...

Docker Containers are Great, But They Add Complexity
Docker increases app flexibility, but it also adds complexity in many ways. To migrate successfully to containers, you need to have a plan for handling that additional complexity. Docker adds flexibility because ...