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The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes
At QCon in March, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Red Hat, gave a talk on the evolution of distributed systems with Kubernetes. You might have an answer to that, and Ibryam has one too. At the end of the article, you will find out what he thinks the answer will be.
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Kubernetes Is Not Your Platform, It's Just the Foundation
Manuel Pais discusses how many organizations see Kubernetes as "the" platform, rather than just a technical foundation for a true internal platform. Successful Kubernetes adoption requires thinking about the platform as a product and establishing product-like team structures and interactions to reduce cognitive load on development and other stream teams. Metrics can help guide the journey.
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Cloud-Native Is about Culture, Not Containers
At QCon London last year, Holly Cummins, innovation leader in IBM Corporate Strategy, provided a session titled: Cloud-Native is about Culture, not Containers. In this article, Cummins will discuss the role of culture in cloud-native architecture. Furthermore, she will dive into various topics around cloud-native ranging from its definition to CI/CD and operations.
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The Perfect Pair: Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance
Businesses are moving towards developing a predictive maintenance model using digital twins that mirror their real-life counterparts. In this article, the author looks at digital twins, and provides an example of how to build one.
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Serverless Functions for Microservices? Probably Yes, But Stay Flexible to Change
When designing cloud-native systems, it is important to accommodate freedom to change deployment strategy, from FaaS to containers or VMs, for potentially significant savings on cloud bills.
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Experts Discuss Top Kubernetes Trends and Production Challenges
Kubernetes growth has led to cultural, technological and operational challenges. InfoQ caught up with Kubernetes experts and implementers who talk about 2-3 top trends and challenges that are facing the platform.
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AI No Silver Bullet for Cloud Security, But Here’s How It Can Help
In this article, the author looks at the real role of artificial intelligence in cloud security – the hype, the reality, and how we can resolve the gap between them. He encourages the reader to focus on making cloud security platforms that allow humans to provide truly intelligent threat responses, rather than relying on the machines to do it for us.
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Performance Analysis for Arm vs x86 CPUs in the Cloud
In this article, the author uses AWS’s Arm (Graviton2) and x86_64 (Intel) EC2 instances to evaluate computational performance across different software runtimes, including Docker, Node.js, and WebAssembly. Our conclusion is that Arm is more cost effective in the cloud, especially with lightweight runtimes that are close to the underlying operating system.
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How Teams Can Overcome the Security Challenges of Agile Web App Development
Is the rapid pace of continuous rollouts making it too easy for your organization to cut corners when it comes to ensuring product source code is secure? You may need to reorient your team culture to adopt agile-friendly security processes. True collaboration between security and dev teams is the key to avoiding product vulnerabilities without compromising on your sprint cadence.
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InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year
As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.
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Q&A on the Book Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends and Strategies
The book Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends and Strategies by Tim Rains provides an overview of the threat landscape over a twenty year period. It provides insights and solutions that can be used to develop an effective cybersecurity strategy and improve vulnerability management.
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Building a Self-Service Cloud Services Brokerage at Scale
While not suitable for everyone, cloud brokerages are useful for large enterprises that want to improve their cloud management and operations. The article looks at planning and delivering a brokerage.