Availability vs. Reliability: What’s the Difference?
Availability and reliability are similar but different concepts. When building web applications, it’s important to understand the difference between the two.
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Mar 2022
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Feb 2022
Don’t Let Your Application Turn into Another Winchester Mystery House
Let the famous haunted house serve as a warning to those who would build applications without a clear vision of what they want as a finished product.
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Jan 2022
Building Right-Sized Application Services: The Goldilocks Calculation
Just like Goldilocks looking for the perfect fit, it’s not always easy to determine the right size for the services you need to build your organization’s applications.
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Dec 2021
2022 Is the Year of the Citizen Developer
The emergence of low-code and no-code programming enables those with no development experience to build their own business applications. The business world is finally ready to embrace it.
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Nov 2021
What Model Airplanes Teach Us About Avoiding Application Failures
When learning how to fly model airplanes as a kid, I was taught an important rule: “Always fly ‘two mistakes’ high.” The same rule applies when building web applications.
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Sep 2021
Modern Application Caching With Redis
My latest book, Caching at Scale with Redis, describes what caching is, why it’s a cornerstone of effective modern applications, and how Redis can help you meet these demanding caching needs.
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Jun 2021
Lee Atchison Joins InfoWorld as a Regular Contributor
Exciting news! I've joined InfoWorld as a contributing author and will write regular articles about cloud computing and application modernization.
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Mar 2021
Welcome to Modern Applications / Modern Organizations
In this new regular column, I will present articles about all aspects of building and operating modern applications, and how to develop and organize your modern organization to manage these applications effectively.