Abstract “All happy cloud deployments are alike; each unhappy cloud deployment is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy, Site Reliability Engineer At Gruntwork, I’ve had the chance to see the cloud adoption journeys of hundreds of companies, from tiny startups to Fortune 50 giants. I’ve seen those journeys go well. I’ve seen those … Read More
Abstract Over the past 5 years, cloud infrastructure has gone from a tax, cost-center, and afterthought – to being central to how modern businesses are reinventing themselves and innovating through cloud software. Infrastructure is no longer “boring.” As a practitioner trying to succeed in this brave new world, though, what does this mean? It means … Read More
Abstract Like many companies, John Deere has outgrown its data centers and moved to the cloud. In this talk I recount a few different types of migrations and transformations as we moved from our small town to the big city. This includes moving a high volume transactional monolith from Moline Illinois to AWS with only … Read More
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We made it to 2021! Ken Rimple and Becca (stepping in for Sujan) bring a slew of dev news to the table this week: some serious, some silly.
Another Charioteer rolls their own security camera system. This time in the cloud, with the shiny new AWS CDK.
Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract Ah, Serverless. The term that means a dozen different things to a dozen different developers. In the most simple case, Serverless just means deploying applications to a platform where the servers are managed for you, and abstracted … Read More
High availability and Cloud disaster recovery for your business: this post covers forgotten AWS passwords, cloud risk versus data center risk, and hidden cloud costs.
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In this conversation, Keith Gregory, AWS Practice Lead at Chariot, reveals what he’s learned to keep cloud functions running smoothly.
A Chariot team led by Eric Snyder migrates a local media giant’s data to the Amazon Web Services cloud.
Abstract AWS has made our life easier. And it has made scaling easier – but too often, when you go to scale, it’s a matter of reaching for the credit card to add more, more, more. Soon, you’re in Cloud Jail. Learn how we dealt with this at TUNE, and how we ultimately did a … Read More
