Multi cloud is a reality. Even though not getting locked in and portability advantage are drivers for multi cloud, we see “picking the right cloud services from any provider to meet the application needs” as one of the main reasons for the adoption. The trend is driven by the varied strengths of cloud providers based […]
Different Flavors Of Serverless Marketing
Yesterday, I wrote a post about retiring the term Serverless in favor of more specific terms like Functions Compute or FaaS, Data Services, etc.. As I expected, this was met with pushbacks on Twitter from people who are in the AWS camp (as in applying the term for services like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, etc.) […]
Microsoft + GitHub – Is The Sky Falling For AWS And GCP?
It is no doubt that GitHub is popular among developers. When AWS wanted to broaden their outreach to OSS Community, they started sharing code on the service. Even when Microsoft wanted to broadcast to the world that they are serious about OSS, its Github that they went to. Google retired Google Code and moved to GitHub. While Gitlab and […]
Microsoft + GitHub = ?
Yesterday Microsoft announced that they are acquiring GitHub, the company behind source code repository focussed on developers. Of course, since the acquiring company is Microsoft, the social media are full of skepticism and parody. Leaving aside all the noise that happens when such a huge acquisition happens, we want to do a quick analysis of […]
On The Need For Red Hat To Enter The Database Space
In response to my post on Red Hat’s blind spot on databases, Redmonk Analyst Steve O’ Grady posted explaining why Red Hat couldn’t (or shouldn’t) enter the database market. He posed a set of 5 questions he expects in any response. In the spirit of good natured debate (with utmost respect to Steve’s views), I […]
Red Hat Summit: OpenShift As The Next RHEL
Last week I was at Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, and this was my 7th Summit, with three of them as an employee. This year’s summit is by far the largest I have seen in the last several years. One striking part of this year’s summit was how OpenShift is the central theme of […]
Serverless Will Grow At A Faster Rate Than The Cloud Did
It takes few minutes to setup a Cloud instance and start using it. This is always far faster and easier than provisioning your own hardware. If you look at this as a function of value vs. effort, it may look something like this. It provides limited value for limited effort. All you are getting is […]
Should CNCF Set The Standards For Serverless?
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has been active in setting up a working group for Serverless in order to define the standards. The working group has been active in defining a level of abstraction that could both be complementary and competitive to what CNCF represents. This is also an insurance policy against Serverless driving adoption […]
Understanding CaaS, PaaS, Container Platforms and Application Platforms
There is quite a bit of confusion in how the terms CaaS, PaaS, Container Platforms and Application Platforms are used. The confusion exist in the market and we want to use this post to clarify what these terms mean in the context of cloud native ecosystem. The difference between CaaS or PaaS and Container […]
A Modern Enterprise Framework For Continuous Innovation
Picking The Right Technology: VMs, Containers or Serverless?
With newer technologies coming up faster than the rate at which IT decision makers can update the platforms, there is always a confusion about which technology is better suited for a workload. In this post, we are proposing a simplified framework for deciding the right platform technology for your application based on your application architecture. […]