Category Archives: Cloud

TekBytes #2: The Complexity of Public Cloud Architecture

Posted on 18th February 2018 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on TekBytes #2: The Complexity of Public Cloud Architecture

For many organisations, the cloud and cloud-native application refactoring is attractive. This is often due to the belief that it will reduce complexity and risk for them, when [..]

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Docker – State of the Nation (aka Observations of a Brit)

Posted on 10th September 2017 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Docker – State of the Nation (aka Observations of a Brit)

It may surprise you to learn that Docker is actually quite old now (at least in Startup terms!), having released the first version of their very cool software [..]

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Does Cloud Provide Infinite Storage Capacity and Retention?

Posted on 9th July 2017 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Does Cloud Provide Infinite Storage Capacity and Retention?

I wrote last week about the challenges of long-term retention of data, and some of the architectural considerations and decisions we take in designing long-term backup or archive [..]

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Startup Spotlight: Re-skill, Pivot or Get Squashed

Posted on 17th April 2017 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Startup Spotlight: Re-skill, Pivot or Get Squashed

The subject matter of this post is a startup of sorts and was triggered by a conversation I had with an industry veteran a few months back. By [..]

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