by Stephen Kuenzli | May 10, 2019 | DevOps, Strategy, Systems
Akoya Pearl by Mauro Kateb “Hey man, simple ain’t easy.”Thelonious Monk, Jazz Pianist and Composer Reading Time: 4 minutes I hope yesterday’s post didn’t discourage you from building more secure or reliable systems. My intent was to challenge and inspire... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 29, 2019 | DevOps, Strategy
Recently, the Hertz car rental company sued Accenture for $32M in damages. The suit (pdf) alleges breach of contract in Accenture’s agreement to build and deliver a new website. This new site was supposed to: support the Hertz, Thrifty, and Dollar brands,... by Stephen Kuenzli | Apr 10, 2019 | Strategy
Yesterday, Simon Wardley highlighted one of the biggest problems organizations face in transformations and improvement efforts: getting ‘trapped’ by their existing context. Once an organization develops a solution that works, the solution establishes... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Mar 29, 2019 | Cloud, Strategy
‘Lock & Clouds’, Kushagra Kevat, Unsplash Avg Reading Time: 5 minutes Some people migrating workloads to the Cloud are concerned about being ‘locked in’ to any one provider. They want those workloads to be ‘portable’ across... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Mar 20, 2019 | Cloud, Strategy
‘A Meal’ by Lily Banse, Unsplash Seemingly every computing service is available in a ‘Cloud’ form now: raw compute and data storage, hosting of custom applications, and ‘standard’ collaboration applications like word processors or... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Mar 18, 2019 | AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Strategy
Today, I will answer a seemingly simple question: What is a Cloud? My definition is: A Cloud is a set of managed computing services backed by vast resources, billed in small increments , and made available via API. This definition comes largely from Adrian Cockroft,... 