Reflections on Amazon Prime Video’s Monolith Move

    Recently an Amazon Prime Video (APV) article about their move from serverless tools to ECS and EC2 did the rounds on all the tech socials. A lot of noise was made about it, initially because it was in...

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    What We Do @CS: The Yin and Yang of Technical and Organisational Change

    At Container Solutions, we often work with customers who approach us saying they need a Cloud Native Transformation because they are not able to deliver fast enough. Typically, a leader will tell us t...

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    Cloud Repatriation Trends: Where Are We Now?

    A typically controversial post from the CTO of 37signals about moving HEY’s servers out of the cloud has re-ignited the debates around cloud repatriation. To say that ‘opinion is divided’ would be to ...

    The Cloud Can Help Deliver Continuous Integration. The Next Challenge Is Continuous Budgeting and Continuous Ideas

    There’s been a cultural revolution in tech departments over the last decade or so, that has allowed engineers and developers to deliver innovation at pace. The question is, how can we ensure the rest ...

    Cloud Native in Pharma and Banking: High Levels of Regulation ≠ Low Levels of Innovation

    It’s not enough just being agile. Developers and software engineers have spent years striving for freedom, in the tools they use, in the ways they apply them, and in the ways they innovate and seek to...

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    The Curse of Knowledge

    By coincidence, I had the same conversation this week with five different groups of people. I figured that I’d write my ideas down and chuck them up on the blog, since this chain of thought seems to r...

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    ‘Cloud Native Transformation’ Authors on Agile Uprising Podcast

    Our co-founders Jamie Dobson and Pini Reznik appeared on the Agile Uprising Podcast this week to talk about their book, Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation.

    Cloud Native and Wishful Thinking—or, How to Avoid Buying Coconut Headphones

    ‘Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket’.  —Eric Hoffer, moral and social philosopher

    Bootstrap as Code: Part 3, Hybrid—a Place for On-Premises in the Cloud

    This article is the conclusion of a three-part series. In Part 1 of this blog series, we explored the bare-metal world and tools that help to bring its provisioning closer to the clouds. We introduced...