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Multi-vendor Service Level Agreement (SLA) model based on Business Availability

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20
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App Dev Manager Dipanjan Ghanti shares an example of how to frame a multi-vendor SLA based on business availability. Introduction Enterprises often run business critical applications that are supported by multiple vendors. While each vendor takes responsibility for their component’s availability, the need to tie it up with the ...

What Is Cloud Native, Exactly?

March 27, 2020 Mar 27, 2020 03/27/20
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I had the pleasure recently of interviewing Robert Vettor, a Premier Developer consultant who specializes in microservices and cloud native architecture. Robert’s in the process of writing a great book on “Architecting Cloud-Native .NET Apps for Azure” which is available now in a preview version.

With cloud applications, performance is money

March 26, 2018 Mar 26, 2018 03/26/18
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This post is provided by App Dev Manager Reed Robison who examines the opportunity and impact of cloud application performance.  If you are moving apps to the cloud, it has never been more important think about performance and as a developer, the business impact you can have may be profound.Early in my career, developers were always ...

Something is Odd About the Monolithic Application Discussion

March 16, 2018 Mar 16, 2018 03/16/18
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In this post, App Dev Manager Mark Eisenberg takes a look back at the origin of monolithic applications and sets up a discussion about what needs to change.A few weeks ago I recorded a podcast which was a free-flowing discussion about monolithic applications, the problems therewith and why they are still with us some 50+ years after their ...

Cloud Design Patterns – Availability

September 20, 2017 Sep 20, 2017 09/20/17
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In this post, App Dev Manager John Tran explores some important availability concepts you need to consider when moving applications to the cloud.Moving to the cloud forces us to change the way we design and deploy applications.  The traditional way of application development for on premises infrastructure is not the same as development ...

Software Application Architecture, JUST DO IT!

September 15, 2017 Sep 15, 2017 09/15/17
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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Alphonsus Pillai, spotlights the importance of a good architecture as the foundation of application quality and ROI. I am amazed at the amount of application development, without proper footings and foundations. We could never imagine building a house without proper design, ...