The Cost of High Availability
June 23, 202199.99% availability, also known as four nines availability, requires a system to only have 52.60 minutes of downtime per year, which corresponds to 4....
Google Cloud Scheduler Create Job Quick Reference
June 15, 2021Google Cloud has a cloud based CRON job system which is highly scalable and resilient so you do not have to build it yourself. Here is a quick guide o...
Five Ways PaaS will Rock the Enterprise
October 3, 2015Platform-as-a-Service is one of the hottest new technologies to hit the market in recent years. Already it has seen significant adoption from startups...
Four Golden Rules of High Availability
October 3, 2015For over the past decade I have worked in the enterprise building large, high-availability systems. As CTO of a cloud company, one thing that still su...
Performance is a Feature… Even for IT
October 3, 2015Recently Jeff Atwood over at coding horror wrote a great blog about how performance is a feature. I not only completely agree with him but I also want...
Scalable Development… If You Need Scale Choose Wisely.
October 3, 2015I see many different applications at Tier 3 from our customers and how they plan on scaling it in the cloud. This usually becomes a debate about what ...
What You Think You Need vs. What You Really Need
October 3, 2015Every business wants to keep costs down and save money, right? Choosing a dynamic environment gives you a way to do just that by ensuring you only buy...