Simple Standards Crush Complex Ones

SOA :: API as PaaS :: Docker I frequently make an analogy of why API’s have supplanted SOA as being similar to reasons why Docker/Kubernetes is supplanting PaaS. SOA was architecturally superior and theoretically provided the same benefits as API’s. Many companies went down the SOA road but few ever implemented it very far. For instance, governance registry […]

Google’s goal of IT-less businesses

INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY(IT) Google announced recently part of its strategy to eventually overtake Amazon. The strategy has many facets and much is not disclosed yet but I believe the goal is achievable for many organizations. Of course you still have to build your applications. I am not talking about the part of IT related to building […]

Containers are becoming the Lingua Franca of the cloud — not a fad

As a CIO you may be wondering if this “Container” fad has legs or may go the way of some other fads. Are containers just another piece of technology you will have to worry about maintaining 10 years from now and wish you hadn’t gone down this path? Docker the leader of the pack and […]