Category Archives: General

The next of our design principles on AWS is loose coupling. A part of this idea is to reduce the blast radius for problems in your application. Another aspect is to define and simplify the connection between parts of your … Continue reading →

I wrote before about New Zealand being like a boy in a bubble, we are still in our bubble. The hardest thing is that most of my friends and clients are not in this bubble. Since most of my work … Continue reading →

Disaster recovery is like insurance; paying for it hurts but not having it when you need it hurts even more. The trick is to have the right insurance for your situation and risks and the right DR too. The reason … Continue reading →

One of the most exciting projects I worked on last year was the CTOAdvisor Datacentre project around using vSphere-on-Cloud services. The project was for the Oracle Cloud VMware Service (OCVS); they paid for the analysis. We started with the premise … Continue reading →

Recycling is a good strategy for the physical world and also for your AWS resources. When you have an automated process to deploy parts of your application, you can often use that same automation to rebuild broken pieces rather than … Continue reading →

The company name VirtualMetric might lead you to believe that the product is all about the performance numbers. While the product definitely has plenty of metrics, I don’t think that is the biggest differentiator. What stood out for me in … Continue reading →

In a long distant former life, I looked after a farm of around a hundred Citrix servers. It was so long ago that they were physical servers, and we built or rebuilt servers following dozens of pages of written instructions. … Continue reading →

If you are just starting out with AWS, you might find the networking a little different from what you are used to on-premises. Take a look at this video series we recently ran on Build Day Live; it was the … Continue reading →

One of the defining capabilities of public cloud is elasticity, the ability to use more or less resource over time to meet the load requirements of your application. When your application is quiet, you should consume and pay for fewer … Continue reading →

Having previously looked at some surprises I discovered as I learned about AWS, I’m going to take a look at some of the basic architectural design principles on AWS. As in the last series, there will be blog posts for … Continue reading →