Reading Time: 4 minutes Back in 2019, one of the questions I started to think about was: “what does a high-performing modern cloud team look like?” What kind of things do they say, what principles do they hold dear and what tenets do they not let go of. We started to use the term
Reading Time: 8 minutes We found out that ‘how to start cloud computing’ is a burning issue! We started a meetup in Belfast with our friends Matt Coulter, Gillian Armstrong, Gillian McCann, and Gareth Gilmore. It is called BelfAWSt. And it is a community Meetup in Belfast, to talk about all things AWS! Open
Reading Time: 7 minutes Serverless is coming to a close. It was a useful vehicle to describe what emerged but it needs to retire to an IT glossary. A modern cloud evolutionary journey has overtaken it. And the term modern cloud theory supplants it. Modern cloud captures the need to balance tech capabilities with
Reading Time: 7 minutes We talk through the ins and outs of the AWS Performance Pillar that forms part of the Well Architected Framework. This is the fourth part of a series of talks. Performance efficiency is a work based development conversation. If your business isn’t bringing in loads of money, you don’t need
Reading Time: 4 minutes There were a number of fantastic SaaS talks at AWS re:Invent 2021, with strong Serverless content throughout. So we thought it was a good time to talk about SaaS and how combining Serverless and SaaS can really give your business its Serverless Edge. What is SaaS? SaaS or Software-as-a-service is
Reading Time: 12 minutes Delivering sustainable technology is becoming mandatory for organisations across the planet, from both a regulatory and moral standpoint. We have written a lot on how using Well-Architected and Serverless First principles is the best way to build a secure, cost effective, reliable and performant applications. More importantly, we firmly believe
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Rapid Development approach leveraged through Serverless is not widely understood in the broader architecture community. Adrian Cockroft has produced really informative talks on the subject. This short six minute video is a great example of one: So what is Rapid Development with Serverless and why as an Architect is
Reading Time: 12 minutes Dave, Mark and Mike discuss Dave’s ‘Adaptation – the Value Flywheel’ talk at Map Camp 2021.In this episode they work through Wardley Mapping as a concept demonstrating an example that Simon Wardley uses when mapping serverless as a concept.They then move on to Dave’s talk at Map Camp which develops
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are many reasons to go serverless and they are often discussed on the excellent Serverless Chats podcast hosted by Jeremy Daly and Rebecca Marshburn. So we were very interested to tune into their latest podcast with Chris Munns. We are big fans of Chris and all he has done
Reading Time: 2 minutes Serverless data is still an emerging topic. The 7 tenets of serverless data will help guide you. …
