Cloud Data - FinOps is the crucial Ops

The daily hype is all around you.

From private to public cloud, multi-cloud, and even hybrid cloud, you're overrun with information telling you this is the path to your digital future. To complicate matters while you are contemplating these choices, you are expected to keep up your daily tasks of enhancing customer experiences and agile delivery of those applications.

Wrapped up in all this delivery and architectural infrastructure, there's a multitude of decisions around data to be considered when engaging with any cloud experience. There are regulatory and compliance pressures that force you to evaluate how we collect, process, and store our observability data. Understanding the pitfalls around the collection, maintenance, and storage of your cloud data can mean the difference between failure and success within your cloud strategy.

This series is based on a talk given previously in Dublin, Ireland and was brainstormed with my good friend Roel Hodzelmans. The reactions from the audience inspired me to share the concepts in this series.

The first article in this series provided an introduction to cloud and data, what that means in a cloud-native architecture beyond just storage. The second article in this series talked about the forgotten data that is often overlooked when planning for cloud-native solutions. This third and final article explores a new operations role that is going to be the most crucial one in your organization.

Cloud Data - Observability is the forgotten data

The daily hype is all around you.

From private to public cloud, multi-cloud, and even hybrid cloud, you're overrun with information telling you this is the path to your digital future. To complicate matters while you are contemplating these choices, you are expected to keep up your daily tasks of enhancing customer experiences and agile delivery of those applications.

Wrapped up in all this delivery and architectural infrastructure, there's a multitude of decisions around data to be considered when engaging with any cloud experience. There are regulatory and compliance pressures that force you to evaluate how we collect, process, and store our observability data. Understanding the pitfalls around the collection, maintenance, and storage of your cloud data can mean the difference between failure and success within your cloud strategy.

This series is based on a talk given previously in Dublin, Ireland and was brainstormed with my good friend Roel Hodzelmans. The reactions from the audience inspired me to share the concepts in this series.

The first article in this series provided an introduction to cloud and data, what that means in a cloud-native architecture beyond just storage. In this second article, the forgotten data that is often overlooked when planning for cloud-native architectural solutions is discussed.

DevConf.US 2022 - Exploring Open Source Edge Success at Scale (slides)

 As previously posted, DevConf.US 2022 took place this week in Boston, MA.

Together with Ishu Verma, we presented our thoughts and work on developing architectures based on existing edge customers from Red Hat. 

Not only did we share the path taken to develop these architectures, but we also shared the tooling, diagrams, and links to how the audience can get started with the work and tooling. 

Below we've shared the slides from our talk. 

DevConf.US 2022 - Exploring Open Source Telco Success at Scale (slides)

 As previously posted, DevConf.US 2022 took place this week in Boston, MA.

Together with Ishu Verma, we presented our thoughts and work on developing architectures based on existing telco customers from Red Hat. 

Not only did we share the path taken to develop these architectures, but we also shared the tooling, diagrams, and links to how the audience can get started with the work and tooling. 

Below we've shared the slides from our talk. 

Cloud Data - Understanding 3 common pitfalls

 

The daily hype is all around you.

From private to public cloud, multi-cloud, and even hybrid cloud, you're overrun with information telling you this is the path to your digital future. To complicate matters while you are contemplating these choices, you are expected to keep up your daily tasks of enhancing customer experiences and agile delivery of those applications.

Wrapped up in all this delivery and architectural infrastructure, there's a multitude of decisions around data to be considered when engaging with any cloud experience. There are regulatory and compliance pressures that force you to evaluate how we collect, process, and store our observability data. Understanding the pitfalls around the collection, maintenance, and storage of your cloud data can mean the difference between failure and success within your cloud strategy.

This series is based on a talk given previously in Dublin, Ireland and was brainstormed with my good friend Roel Hodzelmans. The reactions from the audience inspired me to share the concepts in this series.

Saying hello to Chronosphere

After writing my last article sharing my decision to leave Red Hat after +13 years, I took a vacation from writing until I could publish an introduction to my new challenge.

Today I'm starting a new and exciting path with Chronosphere, which is the only observability platform that tames rampant data growth and cloud-native complexity. 

For me it's an interesting space to dive into and one that I've been dabbling in with my writing and speaking topics for the last year or so. It's also a place that Red Hat, with a focus on providing infrastructure and cloud-native platforms for your hybrid cloud environments, is not concentrating on.

I'm hoping to share my experiences from both the infrastructure and application development domains, use my open source experiences, and learn as we go in the observability world. I'm very excited to dive into the topics of the day on metics, monitoring, and observability while sharing all of my new insights with you here.

Now, about the new role I'm going to take on.

Saying goodbye to Red Hat

My tenure: 2009-2022

The time has come... the end of my tenure at Red Hat after +13 years.  

How about a short summary of some of the highlights while at Red Hat before I move on to a new adventure? 

I'll try to capture the big milestones, but there are just so many that I'm sure to miss a few. 

It's a moment of reflection on more than a decade spent in the world of enterprise open source technologies and riding a wave that was Red Hat in the prime of its evolution in the industry.

I have been involved in open source since my introduction late in life to programming, operating systems, and Linux in 1996. Before joining Red Hat I was involved in the community around a business process management project called jBPM. We were using this heavily in the financial institution I was working at and I became active as you do when you submerge yourself into an open source technology.

OpenShift Commons Dublin - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data (video)

As previously mentioned, on 23 June 2022 I spoke at the OpenShift Commons event in Dublin. 

It was open to all community participants: users, operators, enterprises, non-profits, educational institutions, partners, and service providers as well as other open source technology initiatives utilized under the hood or to extend the OpenShift platform.

I shared some insights into cloud, public cloud, and the way cloud data is having a huge impact on our organizations. I pointed out three aspects to show how sometimes we are missing a very crucial aspect of our usage (and the cost) of data in the cloud. It's not just about storage, but observability and some of the choices we make when collecting metrics on our cloud applications.

Below you'll find the session recording along with the abstract and slides I used in Dublin.

DevConf.US 2022 - Talking edge and telco architecture shop

 As previously posted, DevConf.US 2022 is happening as an in person event later this summer from August 18-20 in Boston, MA.

Our team submitted a myriad of talks to showcase our progress over the last year with open technology architectures at scale. This has been hand crafted around a series we call Talking Architecture Shop that allows us to maintain structure in the talks while focusing in on certain collections or areas of architectural use cases.

This last week we got our notifications that two of the talks were accepted, so let's see what we'll be sharing with you next month in Boston. 

OpenShift Commons Dublin - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data (slides)

Today, 23 June 2022, I spoke at the OpenShift Commons event in Dublin. 

It was open to all community participants: users, operators, enterprises, non-profits, educational institutions, partners, and service providers as well as other open source technology initiatives utilized under the hood or to extend the OpenShift platform.

I shared some insights into cloud, public cloud, and the way cloud data is having a huge impact on our organizations. I pointed out three aspects to show how sometimes we are missing a very crucial aspect of our usage (and the cost) of data in the cloud. It's not just about storage, but observability and some of the choices we make when collecting metrics on our cloud applications.

Below you'll find the abstract and slides I used in Dublin and I hope you enjoy them.

OpenShift Commons Dublin - 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data

I've been invited to share my insights into cloud data at the upcoming OpenShift Commons event in Dublin, Ireland.

On Thursday, 23 June 2022 I'll be on stage with other community members and customers sharing their stories as they work with OpenShift and other cloud technologies. OpenShift Commons is open to all community participants: users, operators, enterprises, non-profits, educational institutions, partners, and service providers as well as other open source technology initiatives utilized under the hood or to extend the OpenShift platform.

It's a great place to find your community:

• If you are an OpenShift Online or an OpenShift Enterprise customer or have deployed OpenShift on-premise or on a public cloud.
• If you have contributed to the OpenShift Origin project and want to connect with your peers and end-users.
• If you simply want to stay up-to-date on the roadmap and best practices for using, deploying, and operating OpenShift.

Now about that talk I'm going to share with you...

Devoxx UK 2022 - Designing Your Best Architectural Diagrams (video)

 Devoxx UK 2022 conference a week ago has posted recordings of all the sessions. I wanted to share our workshop session on how to start designing your best architectural diagrams

The Devoxx series is well know and I've attended and spoken at multiple sessions for the Belgian version in the past. It's very developer centric with a lot of good depth and knowledgable attendees.

Below you'll find the video recording of this 30 minute session and links to the free online workshop and slides used in this talk.

Devoxx UK 2022 - Designing Your Best Architectural Diagrams (slides)

Today I presented at Devoxx UK 2022 conference and shared our workshop on how to start designing your best architectural diagrams

The Devoxx series is well know and I've attended and spoken at multiple sessions for the Belgian version in the past. It's very developer centric with a lot of good depth and knowledgable attendees.

In London I was presenting a short introduction to our diagram tooling, freely hosted online and here are the introduction slides.