Why an Enterprise 5-Year Cloud Plan Must Focus on Serverless
While most of us have looked at the beginning of the new year as the time to set our personal resolutions for the next 12 months, enterprises have already started to execute their plans for the year ahead. But, that’s part of a problem. Too often major organizations move from year to year on a […]
DevOps Predictions for 2018
The new year is upon us, and that can only mean one thing: outrageous tech predictions! This year, we have a few that are easy to believe and a few that are completely off-the-wall. See if you can pick them out. Serverless Overtakes Containers Serverless is the future and containers are dead. Some (or maybe […]
The Role of Operations in a No-Ops World
It seems that every once in a while, we in high tech get wrapped up in the next thing that will eliminate work and/or jobs. Sometimes, as is the case with DevOps, we get something that reduces redundant work and actually makes our life easier in the long run. Most of the time, however, we […]
Should You Go ‘Serverless’? The Pros and Cons
The popularity of the “serverless” term started to grow when Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014. Ever since, we’ve seen the term exponentially grow in use and reference, with more vendors entering the market with their own solutions (Azure recently went GA with Functions, for example). What is it all about and how does this […]
Native Docker for Windows Arrives: Are Containers Finally Serverless?
Is Docker finally ready for the age of serverless computing? That’s the message from the announcement this week of native Docker container support for Windows Server 2016. If you’ve been following Docker for a while, you know that Docker containers originally supported only Linux operating systems. Then, Docker made its platform available for Windows users, […]