A comparison of the most common two ways of entering the cloud. The article takes a closer look at getting the cloud "directly" from your chosen vendor (whether it is Amazon, Google, Microsoft, or anyone else) and compares it with the second option of “entering” the cloud with the help from a certified partner. Specifically, we will focus on Amazon Cloud (AWS).

The past few weeks have been really tough for all of us so I’d like to start this message by sending my best wishes to you and your loved ones. Above all else, our thoughts are with those affected by the COVID-19. We wish them a speedy recovery, and we remain inspired by our healthcare workers and others who are caring for people around the world as well as an overwhelming sense of community amongst people of all nations.

In recent years, work flexibility has become a widely discussed theme. Some of the buzzwords you’re likely to hear include “telecommuting”, “home office”, and “flexible working hours”. The development of cloud technologies has opened new possibilities for defining the ground rules between employers and employees.

I first heard about Michal Šimon (Founder and CEO of Codeac.io.) from my friends in Ostrava. Some of them went to elementary school with him. They all admired Michal’s lovely personality and his achievements. It is very impressive that someone from that small industrial city made it into Silicon Valley and founded his own startup. My colleagues and I were excited to get a chance to have him at the Cloud Native Meetup in Prague. where he talked about serverless machine learning at Codeac.io. What Michal thinks about “buzzwords” such as serverless or cloud-native? And how did he get into software engineering? Read along!

I've met with Jennifer Strejevitch at the co-working space HubHub in the centre of Prague. She is one of the very few women who lectured at the Cloud Native Meetup which I help to organise. It isn't easy to find female speakers for this kind of event. Jennifer was recommended to me by another speaker, Katie Gamanji (we will publish an interview with her soon) Both Jennifer and Katie are active members of the Women in DevOps community and they both worked for Condé Nast - a global publisher with magazines such as Vogue, The New Yorker or Wired in their portfolio. I had a chance to talk to them both about how difficult was it to force their way in and thrive in IT, what kind of trends do they predict in this field, and what does “cloud-native” mean to them. Let's have a look at what I learned from Jennifer.

A solution for automating Cloud SQL backups through GCP technologies leaning as close to fully managed as possible. There are a few ways to implement this solution. In this step-by-step guide, I will show you how to implement such solutions with good, maintainable practices in mind.

Serverless solutions are a growing trend. More companies are deciding to move their IT from previous solutions (whether an on-premises datacenter or platform-as-a-service type) to the cloud.

In 2019 we asked our clients and other Czech companies whether and how they use cloud solutions. Do companies still perceive the cloud as a threat, or is cloud security an asset to them? How many companies are still running on bare-metal and how many are already in the cloud? Is the transition difficult? And which provider is the most popular Google, Amazon or Microsoft?

We've recently got a chance to try out a SaaS monitoring solution called SignalFx. We really enjoyed working with it and thought it is worth sharing our experience. Let's have a look at what are some of its main benefits and everything else you need to know before you deploy any managed monitoring solution:

Is your Google Container Registry filling up, taking up storage and becoming expensive? How to handle images retention as a service?

When you start a new business, almost everything seems to be more important than the IT infrastructure that your product will run on. It's the least of the new CEO's concerns. “We will just buy a bunch of servers and our IT guys will take care of everything else”- he thinks. “First I have to take care of my target audience, frontend and UX of the app, graphic design, contact network, marketing, hiring… Oh, and let's not forget about great coffee and a ping-pong table”

You know the saying, the shoemaker's children go barefoot? That’s exactly how this post topic came by. I was preparing some graphics visualization for a new webinar and as I was rendering the final product for like 6th time due to a minor change, effectively turning my notebook into a fancy, unusable paperweight for the next thirty minutes. It struck me. Here I am, calling myself a Cloud Architect, using my own hardware to do the heavy work, being blocked away from working on my product.

We keep hearing that computing is moving to the Cloud. Moreover, the Cloud should supposedly be the first choice of small and medium businesses, including start-ups. Why so? Here are a couple of reasons why start-ups (as well as the majority of other companies) should embrace the so-called cloud-first approach.

You have probably heard these buzzwords already. With the current boom in cloud computing, the “Linux admins” are going out of fashion and “DevOps Engineers” and “SRE specialists” are popping out all around the globe. But what do these terms, or positions actually incorporate? Should employees with above-mentioned titles work side by side, or should they be afraid of being replaced by one another? Let’s bring some light into this topic.

A lot of companies nowadays use Kubernetes for orchestrating their containers. I thought it would be interesting to talk about the benefits of containerisation - ie. before you even think about adding Kubernetes on top of that.

The world of mobile online gaming is a really competitive environment. Being in the gaming business comes with a lot of day to day challenges. Handling large number of requests, terabytes of data and managing the entire cloud infrastructure in a small team consisting of only 4 people.

Cloud providers meet the storage needs of modern application deployments, by providing services that mostly fit into two categories: object storage and block storage. Do you know what is the difference between Block Storage and Object Storage? Which one is best suited for your needs? What types of storages do different Cloud providers offer?

Last week one of our clients started getting a lot of application errors after they migrated their main service to Google Kubernetes Engine. Quickly they found kube-dns is logging a lot of errors and is consuming a suspicious amount of cpu.

With PubSub Stackdriver metrics adapter running on GKE we can easily autoscale our worker pool for minimum latency and maximum cost-effectivity.

It's been a busy few days here in San Francisco. The Moscone Center is buzzing with people. I am really enjoying meeting other Cloud enthusiasts and exchanging experiences and ideas with them.

To stay on monolith or to re-write it to microservices? This is the question! The question for more and more companies who rely on apps in their business. What are the business benefits and challenges of each of them?

Cloud storage is the next step of data storing evolution. External hard drives are on the verge of extinction as a new, much more convenient and much safer data storing creature emerged in the technology food chain.

On GCP you can export your logs to Google Storage Bucket automatically. Every hour there is a json file containing your logs and its metadata. What if you need just the raw logs though?

Scaling the SaaS / IaaS business up through the partner network is one of the possible routes you can take. Public Cloud vendors rely on partners to get closer to their customers across the world. What does it mean exactly?

All data created by users of your G Suite are the exclusive property of your company (see G Suite Terms). The challenge is to make your users keep the data in your G Suite instance and organise it in a way so that the company has full control over it.

This January AWS has significantly lowered the price of Fargate service hoping to make it accessible to more users. The price is dependant on the number of CPU used and RAM and calculated per usage per minute. At the moment it is up to 40% lower than before.

Kubernetes is supported by a huge community and a great deal of content can be found about it. What I was lacking was a simple, non-technical explanation of how it works and why should my business use it?

This article describes the creation and setup of a certificate for HTTPS on a Tomcat server running on Windows. Its purpose isn't to present every possible option, but the selected one that gets the job done.

The question is: Does GDPR require you to have your data stored exclusively on-premises within the EU? To give you the full answer let's start from the basics terminology.

Building a long-lasting, close relationship with your clients and quickly reacting to their needs is the key to leading a successful business. It can only be done if the relationships within the company are well taken care of in the first place.

Let’s say I have a stateless php app that needs to run 24/7 and automatically scale up to perform well and scale down to be cost-effective. A perfect use case for Kubernetes, right? (Let’s be honest here now — you would use Kubernetes anyway because all the cool kids do it these days).

Continuous integration (CI) is the process of automatically building and testing your software on a regular basis. How regularly this occurs varies.

Google Maps Platform is finally here! We're talking about a revolutionary change in the Google Maps APIs Premium Plan. What are the new exciting features and how will they help your business?

One of the main advantages of hosting application in the cloud is definitely the ability to scale resources in reaction to growing traffic or predictable traffic peaks that can be specific to your business.

IT is all about people. Often we tend to forget that all the IT tools, applications and programmes are here because of people and for people: clients, shareholders, management and employees (no matter what the exact order is).

Cloudflare Workers let you run JavaScript in Cloudflare’s 120+ edge locations around the world. Using a Worker, you can modify your site’s HTTP requests and responses, make parallel requests, or generate responses from the edge.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerised applications using Kubernetes on AWS.

Your business is successful and you need to go global. How do you scale your app across multiple regions? How do you handle deployments to multiple clusters?

Over the past year, the service mesh has emerged as a critical component of the cloud-native stack. Companies such as Paypal, Ticketmaster and Monzo all function fully on cloud-native solutions and they all also added a service mesh to their production applications.

One of the most remarkable characteristics of the public cloud such as GCP or AWS is its speed. Instant access to an environment from anywhere in the world, fast setup, prebuilt images or instances and managed services - all these allow the end-user to start using computing, storage and networking resources in minutes.

Building long lasting, close relationship with your clients and quickly reacting to their needs is the key to leading a successful business. It can only be done if the relationships within the company are well taken care of in the first place.

I love the Google Cloud Platform. I love Google Kubernetes Engine. And I love GitHub as well. But I need a quick CD pipeline for an easy automated app deployment. I have an easy stateless php app running on nginx and php-fpm in Docker containers versioned in git on GitHub.

How to manage disruptions in Kubernetes? Setting a proper RollingUpdate strategy specs solves only one type of disruption.What about other disruptions?

Where exactly does your data go when you send it to the Cloud and are the servers that it is stored in compliant with the European data protection regulations?

Are you the lucky one and your Kubernetes workload is 100% stateless? What about the cluster’s state though? What if you accidentally deleted the whole k8s cluster or a namespace?

Thanks to Googles newest release - the App Maker, now you can achieve even more with Cloud Platform.

The average employee receives almost 100 emails per day. This is a lot to manage, organise and prioritise. Google just announced the biggest updates to G Suite so far.