C4: Container, Code, Cloud & Context
Designing intelligent systems, one layer at a time. ~ Nithin Mohan T K
What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes (a.k.a K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications that was originally designed by Google and now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. What Kubernetes can do? Kubernetes has a number of features in cloud computing world, it can be thought as a : A… Continue reading
I will start with history: Sometime around 2016, Microsoft launched an IaaS service called Azure Container Service a.k.an ACS serves as a bridge between Azure Ecosystem and existing container ecosystem being used widely by the developer community around the world. It helps as a gateway for infrastructure engineers and developers to manage underlying infrastructure such as… Continue reading
Earlier I introduced you the Microsoft Professional Program for Data Science. Right after few days Microsoft announced the BETA availability of two more tracks Big Data and Front End Development. Big Data Track: This Microsoft program will help you to learn necessary skills from cloud storage and databases to Hadoop, Spark, and managed data services… Continue reading
With my earlier article Azure in China, it came in to my interest to look for any other country/region specific independent cloud data center requirements. I came across Azure for US Govt(Similar to Amazon Govt Cloud) instance and Azure Germany data center. For this article context I will be covering only Azure in Germany. What… Continue reading
Microsoft Azure presence in China is always a question when there is a need for any customer to deploy azure applications specifically for Chinese Regional customers. Recently I had an interaction with a Microsoft Certified Trainer, who carelessly said Azure only uses Chinese partner based environment is only for serving CDN (Content Delivery Network) needs,… Continue reading
Typically it is a hype among people that if a product comes from Microsoft, it needs to be criticized and thinking Microsoft would only be promoting their products with Azure. That’s not right and I would say we are being judgmental without even looking at the capabilities on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure the prime competitor… Continue reading
As per Gartner Worldwide Cloud IaaS Spending to Grow 32.8% in 2015. The new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS report released on May 2015 places IaaS companies under the following categories: Leaders: Amazon AWS and Microsoft Challengers: Unfortunately there are no challengers for Amazon/Microsoft as per the report. Visionaries: Google, VMWare, CenturyLink, IBM SoftLayer… Continue reading
: Here are five best practices for maximizing the business value of your PaaS solutions.