Vendor Lock-In Migration When it comes to making web-based applications, a lot of PaaS providers tend to make their developers use the Twelve-Factor App methodology. Other services will require you to build your application while keeping the requirements of immutable infrastructure, or proprietary runtimes and APIs in mind. In case you ever need to migrate from virtual machines to containers, …
The Cloud-as-a-Service Revolution
A Shift to the Cloud Spending on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is growing at an exponential rate and is likely to reach USD 126 billion in 2020. Not confined to the SME sector or non-production workloads, these figures illustrate a continued trend of migration to the cloud including by larger enterprises with critical customer-facing production workloads. The shift towards the cloud presents …
Five Tools You Need for Your Cloud Deployment
You have finally managed to get up and running with your application. It runs great. You’re happy and you’re customers are happy. One morning you wake up with an inbox full of angry customer emails and your Twitter feed full of complaints. While you were sleeping, something broke. You just didn’t know about it until this morning when you checked …