Architect for Failure – Cloud Uptime Is Not A Number

Architect for Failure – Cloud Uptime Is Not A Number I’m lucky enough to be part of lots of business and cloud communities, both online and away from a keyboard.  It’s a great way to keep your skills sharp and absorb other people’s views and ideas.  Recently, there was a thread in one community asking […]

Avoiding Cloud Vendor Lock-In

Avoiding Cloud Vendor Lock-In At Beaty Consultancy, we speak to new clients all the time, which is awesome!  People build really amazing platforms using public cloud technologies, and we advise on the best way to do it.  One of the most frequent themes is around not being locked to one particular cloud provider.  So today […]

Backing Up Your Managed Cloud Services

Backing Up Your Managed Cloud Services Managed cloud services give you everything, don’t they?  Wicked availability, speed, simplicity, and backups built right in.  So why are we talking about backing up your managed cloud services today?  Putting it simply – don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Managed Cloud Services What do we mean […]

Stop Your Cloud Environment Breaking Down

Stop Your Cloud Environment Breaking Down Is it possible to Stop Your Cloud Environment Breaking Down?   Yes, of course it is.  For that, you’re going to need your developers to write every line of code by hand, themselves.  No shared libraries, and no dependencies on other systems.  Your cloud is going to have to […]

Layered Security In The Cloud

Layered Security In The Cloud Security isn’t just one thing, it’s lots of little things.  It’s software, and standards and processes within your business.  That’s why it’s so hard to just go out to the market and get a company to fix your security.  Cloud security can look vastly different from business to business.  But […]

Encryption Will Save Us All, Won’t It?

Encryption Will Save Us All, Won’t It? Everyone talk about encryption these days – whether they understand what it is or not.  For more information about what encryption is and is not, check out our other Security posts.  But is encryption the last word in security?  And if so, why don’t we all just switch […]

Logfiles And Logging In Your Cloud

Logfiles And Logging In Your Cloud. Servers and cloud services are chatty little critters.  They like to keep a note of everything they do, and those notes are known as log files.  They’re usually written whether you like it or not, but if you take an interest in them, you might learn a lot about […]

What Is Serverless?

What is Serverless? We have been writing blog posts about cloud technology for a long time now.  Each week, we take a subject, and try to explain it to ordinary people.  But one thing we haven’t covered in any depth is serverless technology.  But what is serverless? What is Serverless Serverless doesn’t mean that there […]

Using The Cloud To Focus On Your Business

Using The Cloud To Focus On Your Business This blog post was inspired a pal of mine.  He’s one of these guys who has a new idea every time you speak to him, and he’s always learning new skills and tricks.  He works in high tech too, and has recently started his own company to […]

Information In The Information Age

This morning, I was thinking about what to talk about in this week’s blog post as I walked the dog.  I wondered what sources I might consult to come up with the meat and potatoes behind the ideas I come up with at various points during the week.  I can be anywhere when an idea […]