- Resiliency for Digital Enterprise. How it would be different from BCP/DR? [Panel Discussion @ DSCI][This panel discussion happened on 23-Aug-23 in annual “Best Practices Meet” organised by Data Security Council of India (DSCI)] Reliability is the outcome, Resiliency is the way you accomplish that outcome, and (Disaster) Recovery is one of the many practices that you need employ to build resiliency. A simple analogy to understand three important Rs of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) ✳️ “Reliability” is the ability of a service (or anything) to function as expected and to do that consistently: You have a 100 watt light bulb. Every time , you switch it on, it turns on and gives the brightness… Read More »Resiliency for Digital Enterprise. How it would be different from BCP/DR? [Panel Discussion @ DSCI]
- Software Builders: Are you ready to reframe your future? [Keynote @ Azure Community Conference][This was keynote delivered on 30-Oct-21 for Azure Community Conference 2021] The technology has always been evolving at great speed, and pandemic has fueled its acceleration beyond anyone’s expectation. The digital transformations that organizations were planning to do by 2030 are happening right now. As a software builder (anyone who is building software – developers, architects, product managers, DevOps & SRE engineers …), you are at the forefront of driving this acceleration. At the same time, there is increasing pressure on you to transform yourself and equip yourself with newer skills. Two thirds of technologists are now being asked to… Read More »Software Builders: Are you ready to reframe your future? [Keynote @ Azure Community Conference]
- Cloud CORPS – What Azure, AWS and GCP rely on as foundation of robust cloud architecture [Azure Community Conference][This talk was delivered on 29-Oct-21 for Azure Community Conference 2021] Cloud providers have been innovating at a great speed and continuously releasing new services and features. You have multiple services to do the same thing. A growing list of options is increasing the complexity in designing and architecting a cloud application. Fortunately, the three hyperscale cloud providers have realized this growing complexity. All three: Azure, AWS and GCP, have produced a cloud architecture framework (or well-architected framework) for their respective clouds. In this session, you will find details about the cloud architecture framework for the three largest providers, and… Read More »Cloud CORPS – What Azure, AWS and GCP rely on as foundation of robust cloud architecture [Azure Community Conference]
- So, you wanna be a Cloud Solution Architect?[This fireside chat was delivered on 2-Oct-21 through social media podcast on LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube] Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), Customer Engineer, Solution Architect, Cloud Architect – Different organizations use different names for this role, which is primarily responsible for ensuring customers’ success with their cloud deployments and investments. Just being technical experts won’t be sufficient for you to become a CSA. CSAs not only need to keep pace with enormous speed at which technology is innovating and new features are getting released, they also need to ensure that cloud solutions are running as expected, scale up or down with… Read More »So, you wanna be a Cloud Solution Architect?