Over the years there’s been an explosion in infrastructure platforms and application frameworks that form the foundation of “cloud native.” Modern infrastructure platforms range from container orchestrators such as Kubernetes to serverless platforms aimed at rapid application development. In parallel, shell scripts that administrators used to deploy, configure, and manage these platforms evolved into what […]

Cloud Functions is Google Cloud’s Function-as-a-Service platform that allows users to create single-purpose, stand-alone functions that respond to events, without having to manage a server or runtime environment. Cloud functions are a great fit for serverless applications, mobile or IoT backends, real-time data processing systems, video, image and sentiment analysis and even things like chatbots, […]

Over the course of just a few years, the ways in which we consume content have changed dramatically.  In order to compete in this new landscape and to adapt to the technological change that underpins it, media studios and other content producers should consider providing relatively open access to their proprietary content. This necessitates a […]

When you’re considering migrating mission-critical workloads to the cloud, it’s important to make it as easy as possible. We think maintaining your established, on-prem best practices can make a cloud migration a lot easier. Using established best practices reduces the need to rearchitect applications, and also helps ensure continuity as you migrate your infrastructure. We’re […]