cloud computing Archives

code-for-a-living February 15, 2023

Serverless scales well, but most databases don’t

The benefits that come from serverless computing can be lost if you have to spend your time provisioning hardware for your database.

Stanimira Vlaeva and Fred Favelin

partner-content November 21, 2022

Cloudy with a chance of… the state of cloud in 2022 (Ep. 512)

SPONSORED BY PLURALSIGHT Early in the days of high-traffic web pages and apps, any engineer operating the infrastructure would have a server room where one or more machines served that app to the world. They named their servers lovingly, took pictures, and watched them grow. The servers were pets. But since the rise of public…

Ryan Donovan

partner-content May 18, 2022

Building out a managed Kubernetes service is a bigger job than you think (Ep.443)

Infrastructure as code is complicated enough, but building a managed IAC service is a whole other level of complicated.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living May 5, 2022

Security needs to shift left into the software development lifecycle

Security needs to move from an afterthought to a primary concern in software development. Here's what shifting left looks like for real-world developers.

Michael Chenetz

stackoverflowknows September 2, 2021

Pandemic lockdowns accelerated cloud migration by three to four years

The number of questions across Stack Overflow surged, and new research solidifies this trend.

David Gibson and Ben Popper

code-for-a-living March 8, 2021

Infrastructure as code: Create and configure infrastructure elements in seconds

IaC allows developers to supply IT environments with multiple lines of code and can be deployed in a matter of minutes (in contrast to manual infrastructure, which can take hours if not days to be deployed).

Theodoros ‘Theo’ Karasavvas

podcast November 3, 2020

Podcast 283: Cleaning up the cloud to help fight climate change

It's really easy to spin up a project in the cloud these days. So easy, millions of abandoned apps are actually contributing to global warming.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living May 18, 2020

You want efficient application scaling? Go serverless!

Today we’re seeing another shift from virtual machines to containers. Containers are virtual runtime environments running on top of the operating system kernel that emulates the operating system itself. That’s where the serverless model comes in.

Adam Konrád