How to Scale APIs in the cloud with Security, Reliability and Quality of Service

Companies are moving to the cloud faster than ever. The motivation is higher than ever. One of the companies that first put APIs in the cloud was Netflix and they realized many of the issues that others would face sooner than anyone else. Microservices The key takeaway from Netflix’s experience could be microservices. […]

Privacy! This is egregious and illustrative example of way over the line behavior.

I have written about Privacy before. It is a topic I feel personally very strongly about. Here is my other blog entry in which I specify what I think should be legislated to help bring some sanity to the privacy debate. A Case Study This morning I read an article in buzzfeed: uber-executive-suggests-digging-up-dirt-on-journalists […]

The Enterprise Store – App, API, Mobile

This is a story of 2 successful technologies which presages what I believe is a new important innovation. It started with Apple It all started about 15 years ago Apple introduced the iPhone…. It seems like this anyway. The date was actually in 2007, a mere 6 years ago + a few months. Since […]

Disruptive Forces : Disruptive Megatrends

A number of analyst firms and pundits have declared a list of the megatrends. For examples you can see my blogs: IDC Emerging Trends and Gartner Top Megatrends I have my own list of what I call “disruptive” technologies and trends. This comes from talking to people, observing what companies are doing and what […]

Bigdata and Privacy

I believe we need to have new laws to deal with the accuracy of information being held about people and the duration that data can be held. For instance, no company should need information about you for more than 3 years duration without your explicit permission, not permission in a 20 page “legal disclosure” […]

Followup: Cloud Security and Adoption

I produced a blog entry which created some interest on the Cloud Security topic. I produced the blog entry after reading several articles reminding me that the most common excuse i’ve heard for enterprises to avoid the cloud was the concern for “Cloud Security.” The blog entry in question is: Security in the Cloud […]

BigData All the time NSA for you

We are at O’Reilly’s BigData Conference Strata in Santa Clara. The halls are bustling. Bigdata is doing well. The WSO2 theme for the show is “NSA for you.” This has attracted a lot of attention. Most people seem to like the reference to the NSA’s recent notoriety. One person came by the booth […]

A simple guide to Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BaaS, DBaaS, iPaaS, IDaaS, APIMaaS

Cloud computing is something that I find many people still questioning the value of. http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/letting-gamers-experience-the.html What is Cloud computing? I don’t know if this qualifies as the “dumb aaS” guide but it is the simplest way I can explain the benefits of Cloud Computing and what all the fuss is about, what these terms mean and […]

Security in the cloud age

Numerous studies (2013 Cloud Computing Study) have suggested that cloud security is a major adoption stumbling block for major enterprises. I think this is bogus. It’s not that I doubt the study results but I think that security is the “excuse” executives and people use in general when they don’t want to do something […]