It was about four years ago I heard the word “trunk” for the first time in a software development context. I was talking to one of the engineers who managed the release of OpenStack and he was talking about trunk being tested three times a day and companies tapping directly of trunk. I’m not sure... Continue Reading →
Batch to the future–Part 2
The Batch is dead, long live to batch jobs In our previous blog entry, we raised the point that the Cloud is the unique opportunity to promote smart architectures with enough details so that we can address larger issues beyond promoting established Cloud Native and DevOps guidelines for deploying new applications and we close with... Continue Reading →
Batch to the future – Part 1
Occasionally I welcome guests giving a real good perspective on one of the subjects treated on the CloudSourceBlog. Today I’m delighted to give Luc Vogeleer and Alexis Henry the floor for a series of 3 blogs dedicated to how to address mainframe workloads. I do hope you will enjoy their perspective as much as I... Continue Reading →
Evolve to the Digital Enterprise, establish your Application Transformation strategies
In my last two blog entries (blog 1 and blog 2), I demonstrated how to use an analysis model to identify the potential landing zone for an application portfolio and which applications to DevOps enable. Let’s finish this series of blog entries by looking at the transformation strategy to be used by each application in... Continue Reading →
Evolve to the Digital Enterprise, improve your application agility
In my previous blog post, I described how we can use a simple model to assess where to position your applications in your future infrastructure. In the digital enterprise it’s not enough to position your applications correctly in a hybrid environment, it’s also critical to be able to adapt your applications so they address the... Continue Reading →
Evolve to the Digital Enterprise, position your applications correctly.
About six weeks ago I started talking to you about an application portfolio analysis approach based on a simple model looking at the application type and importance for the organization. Since I’ve been refining the model and had the opportunity to test the approach with a couple CIOs. We discovered it actually works not just... Continue Reading →
Cooking breakfast and Microservice granularity
Yesterday I released a blog entry talking about how to set-up transactions in a microservice approach. As I continue to explore the microservices world, let me take a moment and talk about granularity. What is the right granularity for a microservice? As mentioned, you can embed a full transaction within one microservice but then the... Continue Reading →
Microservices & transactions, let’s drink a coffee.
Last week I was asked by a client to talk about microservices, discuss their characteristics and highlight what the implications were on the organization, the way existing applications could be transformed with microservices, where that transformation made sense and several other topics in the area. Over the coming weeks, I’ll take some time to describe... Continue Reading →
Christian Verstraete