migration

Don’t Stop Your Cloud-Native Migration Too Early
Cloud-native migrations can be intense. Steps are complex and intertwined and system complexity can slow you down and introduce problems and concerns. It may not be clear that everything will eventually smooth ...

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 ...

Modernizing Legacy Applications: Technical Lessons
This is part two of lessons learned from modernizing legacy applications to a microservices architecture. You can check out part one here. Part one focused on organizational lessons learned. This segment is ...

Workload Mobility in a Service Mesh World
Service mesh has been on an interesting journey (service mess joke here). If you look back at its history, you’ll see a huge focus on the “zero-trust security” aspects of mesh. Effortless, ...

Kubernetes Maturity Phase 2: Transformation
We previously introduced the Kubernetes Maturity Model and discussed how to prepare for Kubernetes. The next phase in your journey to achieving Kubernetes maturity is transformation. Thus far, you should have prepared ...

Is Docker Appropriate for Smaller Companies?
The ability of Docker containers to scale seamlessly is one of Docker’s main selling points. But scalability only matters for companies that need large deployments. This begs the question: Can containers benefit ...

Should You Migrate to Docker Containers? Not Always
Docker containers are one of the most popular things in IT right now. But you probably learned in kindergarten that what is popular is not always right. So before jumping on the ...

Planning a Docker Migration: What to Ask Before Adopting Containers
How do you migrate to Docker? Which steps do you need to plan for when converting legacy apps or infrastructure to Docker containers? Keep reading for a quick guide to Docker migration ...

Making the Migration to Containers Easier
Why isn’t everyone using containers? There are many reasons for limited container adoption, but chief among them is the difficulty of migrating an existing monolithic app to run inside a container. Here’s ...