Building a scalable application that has high availability is not easy. Problems can crop up in unexpected ways that can cause your application to stop working and stop serving your customer’s needs. No one can anticipate where problems will come from and no amount of testing will identify and correct all issues. Some issues end […]
Why you must scale
We often hear that being able to scale your application is important. But why is it important? Why do we need to be able to suddenly, and without notice, scale our application to handle double, triple, or even ten times the load it is currently experiencing? Why is scaling important? In this episode, I am […]
Risk Management with Ken Gavranovic
Ken Gavranovic was the Executive Vice President and GM for product at New Relic. In early 2019, Ken and I were in Boston together for an event, and we recorded an interview discussion about Risk Management in modern digital applications. Both Ken and I have experience dealing with Risk Management issues in current and past […]
How to Improve Application Availability, p2
Modern applications require high availability. Our customers expect it, our customers demand it. But building a modern scalable application that has high availability is not easy and does not happen automatically. Problems happen. And when problems happen, availability suffers. Sometimes availability problems come from the simplest of places, but sometimes they can be highly complex. […]
How to Improve Application Availability, p1
Modern applications require high availability. Our customers expect it, our customers demand it. But building a modern scalable application that has high availability is not easy and does not happen automatically. Problems happen. And when problems happen, availability suffers. Sometimes availability problems come from the simplest of places, but sometimes they can be highly complex. […]
How to maintain availability with multiple AWS accounts
In this episode, we know that using multiple availability zones helps increase your application availability and resiliency by distributing our application across multiple disperse data centers. But did you know that availability zones don’t necessarily give you the separation you expect? In fact, it is entirely possible to have two instances of a service running […]
Special Edition: The Great Serverless Debate, Redux — Special Guest Clay Smith, part 2
This is a special edition of Modern Digital Applications. July 9th, 2018 was the launch of a podcast episode. It was an episode of the “Modern Software Podcast”, a podcast sponsored by New Relic, and hosted by New Relic’s Fredric Paul and Tori Wieldt. This particular episode was titled “The Great Serverless Debate”. It was […]
News Report: Architecting for Scale, 2nd Edition
The second edition of my book, Architecting for Scale, is now available! Links and More Information Book Website (https://architectingforscale.com) Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Architecting-Scale-Maintain-Availability-Manage/dp/1492057177/) O’Reilly (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920274308.do) Special Report Hello everyone and welcome to Modern Digital Applications. This is just a very quick news break… The second edition of my book, Architecting for Scale, is now available! This edition […]
Special Edition: The Great Serverless Debate, Redux — Special Guest Clay Smith
This is a special edition of Modern Digital Applications. July 9th, 2018 was the launch of a podcast episode. It was an episode of the “Modern Software Podcast”, a podcast sponsored by New Relic, and hosted by New Relic’s Fredric Paul and Tori Wieldt. This particular episode was titled “The Great Serverless Debate”. It was […]
Modernizing and Dynamic Infrastructures
In this episode, Our customers depend on them, and our businesses depend on them. Without modern web apps, most businesses would not survive. This is the second in a two part series on the principles for modernizing your enterprise web application. And then, what is STOSA and how does it help with modern digital applications? […]