How and Why You Should Establish a Cloud Center of Excellence
Increasingly, companies are looking to move their infrastructure to the cloud or are building new capabilities there. The cloud—specifically, the public cloud—consists of many major players, including Amazon (AWS), Google (GCE), Microsoft (Azure), and IBM (IBM Cloud) as well as lesser-known companies. There are many things to consider when you begin your cloud migration, for […]
Staying in the Driver’s Seat When Moving to the Cloud
The cloud is virtually unavoidable today. For any software-based business, from large corporations to startups, the benefits of deploying your software to the cloud are hard to ignore. Choosing which platform to use can be an anxiety-inducing task that many teams ponder for days, weeks, or even months. A major source of this anxiety is […]
AWS Billing Alerts: 5 Steps to Saving Money in Cloud Services
A couple of years ago I was developing a new high availability (HA) system for a past employer. The project used a Mongo database to capture a gargantuan amount of financial data from live streams. By luck, Amazon had just released DocumentDB, which is essentially a clone of the Mongo 3.x API—a perfect fit for […]
The Strategic Role of API Management using Gateways
Effective API management is central to modern digital strategies, ensuring seamless interactions between disparate systems and services. Here, I’ll discuss the pros and cons of AWS API Gateway and Azure API Management and introduce another compelling option for certain scenarios: the Ocelot API gateway. The Case for AWS API Gateway AWS API Gateway excels in […]
