Microservices

Welcome back! If you followed my previous posts you are really fluent on Docker and Kubernetes, so now let’s put that knowledge into practice! The Life of a DevOps Team Have you heard about DevOps from multiple sources and still don’t have a clear idea what it really is? Would you like to create a r…

As far back as 2016 when Tech Republic used metrics like search queries and StackOverflow activity, Kubernetes claim to fame as the top container cluster management platform has been pretty solid. Follow that up with a survey that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation conducted the summer of 2017, a…

Most of the development world is aware of the microservices and containerisation movement, given we’re now in 2018! When folks start working with microservices, they quickly realise that they proliferate fast. One application can contain a large number of microservices that all need to interact and…

In my previous post, we talked about the complexity that Containers can bring to the network and what that means to different roles within an organisation. We also introduced Contiv in this context and touched on its high-level architecture. In this post, we aim to get a big more into detail……

The Communications Services Provider (CSP) industry is at a very exciting time as we transition towards a 5G world. 5G has the potential to be a greater step forward than any of the previous generations of mobile wireless generations. A major focus of 5G are use cases of business and IoT. Indeed, wh…

There is a big (justified) hype around containers and microservices. Indeed, many people speak about the subject but few have implemented a real project. There is also a lot of excellent resources on the web, so there is no need for my additional contribution there. I just want to offer my few reade…

Software engineering and developer communities are driving the market for cloud consumption and leading each industry into a new era of software-defined disruption. There are no longer questions about elastic and flexible agile development as the way to innovate and reduce time to market for busines…

Technology has always been an enabler in challenging the status-quo but turbulent market shifts have accelerated the journey to becoming digital businesses for traditional enterprises. There are many forcing functions but enterprises are striving for the intelligence that can be gained by ever incre…

Virtualization is an overloaded word. Originally it was used to describe a form of hardware emulation, but these days it appears that any form of software abstraction is called “virtualization”. In the context of the CMTS the term cloud native more accurately describes the upcoming evolution of the…