I have attended more than my fair share of conferences in Las Vegas but nothing prepared me for my first visit to AWS re:Invent in 2017. It was a madhouse! Over 45,000 people, 5 Hotels, 100s of sessions. Sometimes it was like Disneyland; you pay a lot of money to queue.
However, nothing […]
Remember when managing IT resources meant you had to literally see it and touch it to manage it? OK, maybe not all of it, all of the time. It’s of course been […]
Visualization is a human trait, it has been part of us since our ancestors painted on cave walls to map animal types, movement and the hunt. A more recent example of visualization as an innovation was when Napoleon used them in the early 19th century wars. He didn’t need to put himself in danger to see […]
There’s a problem lurking in the cloud-era IT industry. Seventeen years since the 20th century and documentation techniques such as runbooks from that era still persist today. 21st century technologies and methodologies such as cloud services, containers, microservices, APIs and DevOps are more dynamic than datacenters of old because they are more virtual, […]
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) pace of innovation over the past eight years amazes me. Every year their cloud gets wider and deeper! The breadth of their public cloud offering reveals a count of over sixty services each with regular innovations of their own. It seems as though […]