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Cloud Security Auditing: Challenges and Emerging Approaches

Security audits are an important part of IT security programs. In this article, authors highlight the challenges in cloud computing business models, based on interviews with cloud security auditors. They talk about the challenges in the areas of transparency, encryption and colocation and domain-tailored audits as ideal solution in the new model.

Syed Rizvi William Aiken John Kissell Jungwoo Ryoo
on Mar 08, 2015
Highly Distributed Computations Without Synchronization

Synchronization of data across systems is expensive and impractical when running systems at scale. Traditional approaches for performing computations or information dissemination are not viable. In this article Basho Sr. Software Engineer Chris Meiklejohn explores the basic building blocks for crafting deterministic applications that guarantee convergence of data without synchronization.

Christopher Meiklejohn
on Feb 17, 2015
DevOps in AWS LiveLessons Review and Q&A with Author Paul Duvall

Addison-Wesley Professional Devops in AWS LiveLessons is a 4+ hours video course for infrastructure developers and Sys Ops engineers who aim at creating a fully-automated continuous delivery system in AWS. The course is focused on leveraging key features of AWS while also presenting them in the framework of DevOps best practices and tools. InfoQ has spoken with course author Paul Duvall.

Sergio De Simone
on Feb 12, 2015
DevOps

Virtual Roundtable: The Role of Containers in Modern Applications

JP Morgenthal recently published a controversial DevOps.com article entitled “Containers Are Designed for an Antiquated Application Architecture.” After observing a lively debate on Twitter, InfoQ reached out to some of the most influential (and opinionated!) tech leaders in the industry – including Morgenthal himself – and asked them to participate in a virtual roundtable.

Richard Seroter
on Feb 05, 2015
Learning Fast in Design, Development and DevOps

Delivering the right products fast can be challenging, certainly when there are many unknowns along the way. If you want to build products fast in a context of high uncertainty you need to be able to learn fast and efficiently said Ismaël Héry from Le Monde. At the Lean Kanban France 2014 conference he gave a presentation about learning fast to build fast.

Ben Linders
on Jan 14, 2015
Book Review and Interview: The Practice of Cloud System Administration

The new book, The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, looks at a wide range of considerations for cloud-scale systems. In this book review and interview with the authors, we look at how teams can apply proven best practices.

Richard Seroter
on Dec 18, 2014
DevOps

Scaling Docker with Kubernetes

An introductory guide to scaling Kubernetes with Docker. Kubernetes is an open-source project to manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system, managing and running Docker containers across multiple hosts, offering co-location of containers, service discovery and replication control.

Carlos Sanchez
on Nov 29, 2014
An Introduction to Chef and to Cookbook Development Flow

“Infrastructure as Code” is a tenet of the DevOps community. But treating Infrastructure as Code is a tall order. Development practices have also evolved rapidly and nowadays that means continuous integration, automated tests and more. We’ll make a brief introdution to Chef, a well-known IT automation tool, and use it to illustrate the state of the art.

João Miranda
on Nov 23, 2014
Cloud

Sam Newman: Practical Implications of Microservices in 14 Tips

What are the practical concerns associated with running microservice systems? And what you need to know to embrace the power of smaller services without making things too hard? At last GeeCon 2014 in Krakow, Sam Newman tried to answer those questions by giving 14 tips about how microservices can interface, how the can be monitored, deployed, and made safer.

Sergio De Simone
on Oct 28, 2014
Interview and Book Review: Managing Windows Servers with Chef

InfoQ spoke with John Ewart about his book “Managing Windows Servers with Chef” that covers all aspects of managing Windows systems with Chef.

Matthias Marschall
on Oct 24, 2014
Cloud Automation in a Windows World

In this article, Matt Wrock explores real world Windows automation scenarios. How is Windows being automated in 2014? What are the pain points? How does this differ from the Linux world?

Matt Wrock
on Oct 18, 2014
"The Docker Book" Review and Author Q&A

"The Docker Book", by James Turnbull, is a hands-on book for everyone who wants to learn about Docker. It will take you from your first installation, through simple examples that explain Docker's concepts, to more complex scenarios that shed some light on how you would use Docker on the real world. InfoQ took the opportunity to hear the author on the book and Docker.

João Miranda
on Oct 10, 2014

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