A few years back I embarked on a dream project. The client contacted us to design and build a greenfield Cloud Native platform. They had a new and exciting hardware device that was going to collect lo...
It was sci-fi author William Gibson who first pointed out that the future is already here, it just isn’t evenly distributed. That comment applies particularly to privacy, surveillance, and trust. Righ...
The move from monolithic architectures to microservices requires communication between the different services that make up applications. Service instances are typically processes that need to communic...
In our recurring feature, 3 Questions, we ask influential people in the Cloud Native community a trio of queries aimed at defining WTF Cloud Native is. In this edition, Daniel Bryant, director of dev ...
About a year ago, brick and mortars like restaurants and grocery stores were scrambling to set up delivery and curbside pickup. A lot of them used chaos engineering, in production, to hunt for failure...
Not so long ago, it was unusual for most employees to work remotely, especially full time. Then, in March 2020, came the global pandemic. Suddenly, kitchen tables, living rooms, and bedrooms were bein...
Identity is easy. Everybody has one, after all. Authentication? Possibly even less convoluted. Anyone using a smartphone authenticates dozens of times per day just to use it, and that’s even before in...
If you want to start a debate among API technologists, just ask them to share their thoughts on "API versioning". It's a sure bet you'll uncover some strong feelings in short order. The term "API vers...
In January 2020, a radical public-health intervention was introduced to the world: the lockdown. Before China wheeled it out, it had never been used at any great scale outside Hollywood. No one believ...
