Richard Seroter
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The InfoQ eMag: Kubernetes and Cloud Architectures
Does it feel to you like the modern application stack is constantly shifting with new technologies and practices emerging at a blistering pace? We've hand-picked a set of articles that highlight where we're at today. With a focus on cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes, these contributors paint a picture of what's here now, and what's on the horizon. → Read More
The InfoQ eMag: Edge Cloud
This series of articles touches on many of the key aspects of designing and delivering a solution that uses edge computing. We hope you enjoy it, and that it sparks new ideas and debates with your colleagues. → Read More
Google Cloud BrandVoice: When It Comes To Cloud Migration, Stop Playing It Safe
Richard Seroter, Director of Outbound Product Management, Google Cloud, has spent more than eight years working with enterprise executives, team leaders, and individual contributors on their transition to the cloud. In this article, he shares three things you can do to safely speed up the journey. → Read More
New Report Shows "Overwhelming" Cloud Usage
The new Cloud Adoption in 2020 report from O'Reilly Media paints a picture of "overwhelming" usage of cloud computing. The survey results also revealed growing adoption of Site Reliability Engineering, high but flattening usage of microservices, and limited interest in serverless computing. → Read More
Article Series: Edge Cloud
Is edge computing the next frontier? Possibly. Once you get past the inevitable hype, you can see the value of processing data streams across distributed compute pools. If you view edge as an evolution of both infrastructure and application architecture, you recognize that our existing practices need an upgrade. How should we design systems that run in a disconnected state? How do we deploy… → Read More
Spring Data to Spring Cloud to Spring Security: How Azure Supercharges Spring Boot
Richard Seroter, Asir Selvasingh, Vaibhav Agrawal demo an application that features Spring Security for Azure AD, Spring Cosmos DB, Spring Stream Binder for Event Hubs, Azure Monitor, and others. → Read More
Kubernetes Usage Expanding in Large and Small Companies, CNCF Survey Shows
Survey results from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed accelerating adoption of Kubernetes and containers, especially in production environments. This echoed the findings from the new, enterprise-focused, State of Kubernetes 2020 report from VMware. → Read More
Microsoft Ships Preview of Cluster-Friendly Cloud Disks
Storage is one of the more mature services in the public cloud, but rarely supports traditional clustered systems. To attract those on-premises workloads, the Microsoft Azure team released a preview of Azure Shared Disks, a block storage option for attaching managed disks to multiple virtual machines. → Read More
New Google Cloud Config Connector Treats Cloud Services Like Kubernetes Resources
The Google Cloud team just made the Google Cloud Config Connector generally available. Once installed into a Kubernetes cluster, it allows users to treat services like databases and virtual machines as Kubernetes resources. → Read More
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2019
Last week in Las Vegas, AWS held their annual re:Invent conference and unveiled a slew of new products, while updating many existing ones. Here's a review of announcements impacting compute, data and storage, app integration, networking, machine learning, identity management, enterprise services, and development. → Read More
Ahead of re:Invent, Amazon Updates AWS Lambda
A series of updates to AWS Lambda aim to improve how the function-as-a-service platform handles asynchronous workflows and processes data streams. These newly announced features arrived the week before the annual mega-conference, AWS re:Invent. → Read More
Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms. Here's what that means.
Doing Kubernetes right means understanding what it's good at and good for—namely, providing a powerful, flexible foundation for running other platforms that more directly align with business demands. → Read More
Azure Functions Premium Plan Goes GA, Brings Pre-Warmed Instances, VNET Integration
Announced as a public preview back in April of 2019, the Azure Functions Premium plan is now generally available. This set of functionality is focused on scale, performance, and network connectivity for serverless functions. The Premium plan was released amongst a host of other Azure Functions updates meant to broaden the appeal of Microsoft's serverless computing platform. → Read More
Improving Security Practices in the Cloud Age: Q&A With Christopher Gerg
IT leaders say that security is a top priority. Surveys show that it’s easy to say, and hard to do. InfoQ spoke with Christopher Gerg, CISO at Gillware, about security practices in the cloud age. → Read More
Change to AWS Lambda Networking Reduces Cold Start Time for VPC Customers
AWS announced changes to how Lambda functions connect to resources in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This change — using pre-created network interfaces instead of network interfaces created for each function execution environment — cuts out a major factor in "cold starts" for serverless functions. → Read More
DigitalOcean Adds Managed MySQL and Redis Services
Cloud provider DigitalOcean recently released a pair of new managed data services. Their Managed MySQL and Redis offerings are on-demand and elastic, and offer a variety of sizes and high-availablity options. → Read More
Weaveworks Releases Ignite, AWS Firecracker-Powered Software for Running Containers as VMs
Software startup Weaveworks celebrated their fifth birthday by releasing an open source project called Weave Ignite. This project is billed as a "GitOps-managed virtual machine (VM) with a container UX." This novel software uses Firecracker, the AWS open source project that underpins AWS Lambda. InfoQ spoke to team behind the project to learn more. → Read More
For Digital Transformers, It's About Fast-Moving Data. Here Are Three Ways to Speed Up.
I just finished reading the book "AI Superpowers" by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. Both inspiring and eye-opening, the book explained the rise and impact of Artificial Intelligence. Not surprisingly, CIOs around the world say that AI is a top priority for their organizations. And, lest we forget, AI is powered by data. Lots of it. Whether you're building recommendation engines, automating business activities,… → Read More
For Digital Transformers, It's About Fast-Moving Data. Here Are Three Ways to Speed Up.
I just finished reading the book "AI Superpowers" by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. Both inspiring and eye-opening, the book explained the rise and impact of Artificial Intelligence. Not surprisingly, CIOs around the world say that AI is a top priority for their organizations. And, lest we forget, AI is powered by data. Lots of it. Whether you're building recommendation engines, automating business activities,… → Read More
How Do We Think About Transactions in (Cloud) Messaging Systems? an Interview With Udi Dahan.
Do today's cloud-based messaging services have different transactional support than those that preceded it? If so, what are the implications? In this interview with distributed systems expert Udi Dahan, we explores that question,. → Read More