The Cloud Native 101 Cribsheet

    For the past few weeks we’ve been posting a blog series on Cloud Native, which in true tech style has been bunged full of buzzwords. We’ve tried to explain them as we went along but probably poorly so...

    Microservices - Thinking Outside the Lines

    In our last few posts we’ve talked about two of the architectural and operational weapons of Cloud Native: containers & dynamic management. However, when I go out and talk to Cloud Native users I ...

    Is Dynamic Management the Real Ops Disruptor?

    Are Containers the Best Cloud Native Tool?

    Earlier in this blog series we described how every strategy comprises a goal and the actions we take or tools we use to accomplish it. We’re now going to consider some of the tools that Cloud Native u...

    The 3 Most Common Cloud Native Goals & What Kind of Company Are You?

    Cloud Native Goals In our earlier posts in this series we described a Cloud Native Strategy as a way to achieve business goals by taking a particular set of actions:

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    A High Available Redis cluster on top of Kubernetes and Habitat

    In the last two months, I've worked together with Chef to evaluate Habitat from a cloud native developer perspective. This is the last blog in a series of three where I'll share my experiences. The fi...

    What is a Cloud Native Strategy?

    In the last two blogs on this subject we talked about Cloud Native computing and about strategy. In this blog, we'll put the two together and consider Cloud Native Strategy - what it means and how to ...

    The Seven Elements of Strategy (Which You'll Need To Know If You Are Creating a Cloud Native Strategy)

    In the first post in this series, my colleague Anne Currie said that cloud native was about speed, scale and costs. We discovered that cloud native helps you get your ideas to market quickly; that clo...

    This is not the Serverless I Ordered