Cloud computing continues to evolve with many of the major providers now offering Serverless Computing, also often referred to as Functions-as-a-Service. To help make sense of how Serverless computing works and what it offers, I presented an overview to Equinox IT clients and team members. Based on experience so far with Cloud deployed applications I'm excited by the potential use-cases and the advantages that Serverless computing has to offer.
MicroServices for a small island
In New Zealand the scale of most solutions, and the dev teams working on them, are tiny compared to global software companies. Yet many developers, architects and CxOs I work with, want to do things 'because Netflix does it' – especially when it comes to MicroServices.
Continuous Performance Testing – What prevents you from doing it?
Continuous Testing is automated testing with fast feedback on build quality via integration in the Continuous Delivery process. This sounds like a nice concept, but does performance testing really fit into that and how?
Website performance timing points – Comparing Google Analytics, Dynatrace SaaS, cURL, HAR and New Relic
As more software and services are built to quantify website performance, there is an increasing requirement to try and compare those different sources. Sometimes it is an easy apples-to-apples, such as a common underlying API like W3C Navigation Timing. Mostly it is not.
Using your existing hardware, Forward Secrecy and AES-NI to enhance system speed and security for free
This blog post deals with two separate technologies that integrate to enhance security and acceleration for encrypted web communications from your servers. By selecting the correct configuration on your server you and your clients can benefit from faster and more secure encrypted communications of your systems. And for free too, if you already have modern CPUs. Faster, better, cheaper. A CIOs dream.
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