Virtuous Cycle of DevOps
Back in 2010 when I took a role as a VP of engineering for a local cloud storage startup, the DevOps team I inherited was more system administration than development operations. While the team automated with Chef and had implemented basic monitoring, the typical day was spent responding to unplanned issues across our infrastructure. We were in the trough of disillusionment of DevOps and knew...
Read MoreHiring Spotlight: DevOps Lead
Tired of carrying your company’s legacy infrastructure and automation forward? Wishing you had an opportunity to do DevOps right with no inherited technical debt? Up for the challenge of building a fully automated, highly elastic, multi-cloud infrastructure for a service that collects and processes billions of metrics? CloudHealth Technologies is searching for a DevOps lead to design, automate...
Read MoreChoosing the Right Instance Type
Introduction With several vendors offering cloud compute, it is becoming increasingly complex to identify which cloud instance type is most cost effective for your needs. To help find the right cloud for your workloads, we have compiled a comparison of 34 instance types available from 4 cloud providers. The comparison provides pricing, which includes reserved pricing if available, and three key...
Read MoreImportance of Disk Striping in the Cloud
By Joe Kinsella & Josh Pasqualetto Introduction While the cloud offers numerous means of storing data, the Swiss army knife of cloud storage remains the block store. Up until recently, Amazon was the only provider of block storage, recognizing early the importance of attaching variable sized storage to compute as a means of supporting a wide variety of customer use cases. But as cloud...
Read MoreArchitecting for the Cloud
If your technology strategy is to migrate existing applications to the cloud, I have some bad news: be prepared for poorer performing applications that cost more. Why? As a general rule, even the best designed non-cloud software architectures will have cost, reliability and/or performance issues when deployed to the cloud. So while this doesn’t mean you can’t migrate your non-cloud architecture...
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