Category Archives: General

Some technologies take over the (IT infrastructure) world, some sink without a trace, and others find a niche where they fit a requirement. I suspect VMware’s VVols (Virtual Volumes) fall into the last category. VVols was released as a feature … Continue reading →

I’ve always used this blog to document and share what I learned. Lately, I have been learning about myself and my neurodiverse mind, so I plan to share some of this new learning. First off, I am not a psychiatrist, … Continue reading →

Cloud-native applications usually use cloud-native storage, usually a combination of databases and object storage. Some of the agility of cloud-native application development comes from separating the persistence (storage) from the compute. Applications can be rapidly developed using DevOps methodologies while … Continue reading →

The design principle to use caching is not simply an AWS principle, it is a common application design principle. A cache is a temporary storage location for a small amount of data that improves application performance. Sometimes the cache is … Continue reading →

Are databases too slow for your application? I don’t mean, is your database slow, and do queries take minutes to complete. I mean, is an optimized database still too slow for the rate at which things happen? That brings you … Continue reading →

This AWS design principle is based on the financial reality of using cloud services. The magic of AWS is that you can use as much or as little resource as you want and only pay for what you use. The … Continue reading →

My favourite quote from Werner Vogels is, “Everything fails, all the time.” One of the AWS design principles is to understand where things fail and prevent a failure from causing your application to stop doing its job. The guidance from … Continue reading →

Some of the AWS design principles pinpoint that AWS has many services to fulfill many different needs. The guidance for choosing the correct database solutions is not to say that you must standardize with one database for your application, quite … Continue reading →

Most of the AWS design principles are about using the unique features and limitations of the AWS platform. With on-premises enterprise infrastructure, applications can assume that the infrastructure is perfect and will handle failures without the application knowing. The result … Continue reading →

As I’m sure you know, VMware has been making a big move into networking in the last few years. The acquisition of VeloCloud in 2017 added WAN capabilities to the data center networking of NSX, from the Nicira acquisition in … Continue reading →