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Serverless Conference London 2016 (Part 1) – IoT, Share-Nothing, Webtasks, and Cautions

This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. After the success of New York and Tokyo events the 2016 Serverless Conference in London was hugely anticipated and offered an exciting selection of 40+ international speakers. Our SkeltonThatcher representative (me) was in attendance for days two and three to soak up the vibe and check out some ofContinue reading “Serverless Conference London 2016 (Part 1) – IoT, Share-Nothing, Webtasks, and Cautions”

Database Deployability – #6 Value more highly the need for change

This post was written by Matthew Skelton co-author of Team Guide to Software Operability. Deployability is now a first-class concern for databases, and there are several technical choices (conscious and accidental) which band together to block the deployability of databases. Can we improve database deployability and enable true Continuous Delivery for our software systems? Of course weContinue reading “Database Deployability – #6 Value more highly the need for change”

AWS Lambda – Function Focus and the Future

This post was written by Rich Bosomworth. The term serverless refers to a model of cloud compute that runs code in response to events. AWS Lambda is currently the more popular choice of serverless technology against competing offerings such as IBM OpenWhisk or Azure Functions.

Free eBook – DevOps Journeys

DevOps has become a highly common term with more and more organisations adopting it, however, the idea is still quite new and everybody has their own opinion on what it actually is. Considering this, Linux Recruit interviewed fourteen industry experts about their experiences and tried to reach a common definition, overviewing the current state of DevOps andContinue reading “Free eBook – DevOps Journeys”

Database Deployability – #5 Source Business Intelligence from a Data Warehouse

Operability.io 2016 – Automation, monitoring and communication (Day 2)

Day 2 of the Operability.io conference!

Operability.io 2016 – Operations is crucial (Day 1)

This post was written by Jovile Bartkeviciute. After the success last year, the Operability.io returned to London on Monday 19th September. The two-day conference was single line, same as last year, and the speakers were hand-picked and carefully chosen by the organisers. Day 1 started with an opening speech by Marco Abis, with Mark Burgess delivering the firstContinue reading “Operability.io 2016 – Operations is crucial (Day 1)”