On cloud

Cloud Alchemy - GitLab, more than just a SCM

So we are trying to transmute our old application platform into a cloud-native platform. We looked at Pulumi for standing up our infrastructure using our favorite programming …

"Cloud Alchemy" - Pulumi, standing up infrastructure with actual code

Alright, it is time for me to migrate my on-prem application to the cloud. If we are using “alchemy” terms, we want to “transmute” the applications. Moving …

CloudSeed: Let's make cloud apps easier

Deploying web applications should be easy, like ridiculously easy. Why do I need to become an NGINX/Apache expert and a Linux Admin just to deploy an application? This has been the …

Knative Joins the CNCF!

You read that correctly! Knative has officially become an incubating project at CNCF! This popular open source project is now joining the premier cloud open source foundation, but …

Serverless Eventing: Cloud Native Messaging with NATS Streaming Server

We talked about the importance of an Eventing Bus earlier in the Serverless Eventing series. It is a generic term for a concept and doesn’t reflect a specific brand or …

Serverless Eventing: Modernizing Legacy Streaming with Kafka

Knative Eventing offers a variety of EventSources to use for building a serverless eventing platform. In my previous blog post I talk about SinkBinding and we use this concept to …

Serverless Eventing: A Series

“I want a data-driven organization!” We have all heard this in recent years haven’t we? Maybe it was at an All-Hands, maybe your manager, probably at a mixer in …

What the *bleep* is Multi/Hybrid-Cloud Anyway?

With 2019 coming to an end, it has become clear that Hybrid Cloud and Muli-Cloud have become the buzzwords of the year. It wasn’t that long ago that we were talking about …

The Promise of Cloud Compute is Serverless

In recent years I have noticed more and more people seem to be dropping the term “serverless”. It is up there with “Blockchain”, “Crypto”, and …