Alin Dobra

Many e-commerce businesses understand the need to move their infrastructure to the cloud. Maintaining the user experience in the event of traffic spikes and slow page load time, being vigilant about customer data security because online stores are often targets for cybercriminals, having a reliable solution for backups, are just a few of the reasons shop owners think about moving to the cloud. Choosing the right cloud provider, however, can be an overwhelming decision.

Most e-commerce businesses that think about cloud adoption have a one-step at a time approach. They address specific needs as they arise. At the opposite pole are the online shops that don’t have a strategy in place and are subject to “cloud sprawl”. Cloud sprawl usually occurs when different departments inside the same organization are contracting for cloud services independently of each other. As a result, this situation drives up costs and can lead to issues with compliance and security.

Right now, we’re experiencing an exploding growth in the amount of data we generate. Moreover, this data is unstructured. This means that the traditional storing solution of using relational databases with rows and columns is no longer efficient.

Continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery/deployment (CD), and continuous testing (CT) accelerate the code release process and help with deployment.

Both SysOps (system operations) and DevOps (development operations) are two central components of Cloud Computing, one of the leading technologies of the last decade. As some organizations find it difficult to distinguish between the two, we have decided to cover their similarities and differences in detail.

Upkeeping and configuring hundreds of computer systems and monitoring networks is not easy. But with the right tools, the job becomes less tedious as many of a SysAdmin’s tasks can be automated.

Conferences and meetups are great opportunities for developers to learn new things (either about a subject they’re interested in, either about new technologies they might not have heard of), share their knowledge and experience, and connect with other like-minded professionals.

84% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy, and 58% use both public clouds and private clouds as part of that strategy.

If we think about the evolution of software development, we’ll distinguish 2 turning points: the introduction of the waterfall methodology and the shift towards the agile methodology.