Best practices are essential guidelines that drive optimal performance and outcomes in various fields. These practices represent proven methodologies and strategies that are recognized for their effectiveness in achieving desired results. In business, adhering to best practices ensures efficient operations, risk mitigation, and superior quality in products or services. Whether it’s project management, cybersecurity, or customer service, embracing best practices demonstrates a commitment to excellence and continuous improvement. By integrating these time-tested approaches, organizations can enhance productivity, innovation, and overall success, setting industry benchmarks and fostering a culture of excellence that resonates with customers, partners, and stakeholders.
You’ve decided to use microservices; now is a good time to think about which messaging system you’ll use to connect your services. Apache Kafka and KubeMQ are the two options available to you. About Apache Kafka LinkedIn engineers originally designed Kafka as a software bus for monitoring LinkedIn user behavior. It was eventually released as an open-source offering, and the… Continue readingKubeMQ: A Modern Alternative to Kafka
The cloud has brought forward a number of creative and financial innovations for tech industries across the globe. Most companies use cloud technology in one form or the other today and are benefiting from the solutions that the platform has to offer. The cloud is leading the digital wave of change and is a major part of the turn towards… Continue readingTop Cloud Innovations in This Decade
A vast and extended pool of new and unique opportunities have opened up for project management since organizations have started embracing policies that are cloud-only or cloud-first. Cloud allows professionals to share resources, develop ideas, and collaborate and communicate in real-time and from anywhere across the globe. Cloud computing has an interconnected nature and therefore has enabled project management to… Continue readingHow to Manage a Cloud Project
The IT industry as a whole is always in a hurry. Time is always of the essence, and priorities keep on stacking up, asking individuals to keep on driving more value while reducing input. Improving DevOps productivity and efficiency is a major part of what drives change in the IT industry – and one of the best ways to do… Continue readingIncreasing DevOps Productivity Using Infrastructure as Low Code
The list of benefits that IA or Intelligent Automation offers to businesses and organizations is a long one. It is an automation that is based on software and allows enterprises to direct their focus on quality improvement and compliance, enhanced resilience of processes, optimization of outcomes of decisions, enhancement of the speed of processes, and reduction in costs. It does… Continue readingImprove Efficiency With Intelligent Automation
The overarching objective of controlling costs and long-term cloud cost management, as in any other area, is to optimize cloud costs using available finances, making the most of every company dollar. Most people believe that technology is the primary factor driving cloud success, but in truth, it all comes down to cost control. Many organizations discover that as “clutter” accumulates… Continue readingImplementing a Cloud Cost Governance Program
Trusted repos allow you to share AWS resources across your account. This can come in handy for situations where you need a dedicated, secure, private, and protected resource set. Say, for example, you have a common set of Docker images used by several teams. A dedicated repo would be a great way to access those images commonly and securely. This… Continue readingHow To Implement A Trusted Repo In AWS
IT departments have significantly changed during the last couple of decades. In the past, we saw that many IT departments were left to devise and develop their own strategies for coming periods and years. This was because business leaders weren’t well versed with the ever-changing techno speak mentioned by IT leaders and because the IT department wasn’t seen as strategic… Continue readingKey IT Governance and Management Strategies
Cloud computing has revolutionized the world as we know it. Cloud is involved in nearly every aspect of our lives now, and the way we function in this decade is something our ancestors had never even dreamed of! Cloud is also evolving at nearly lightning speed even now, and its prospects are unreal. Which, of course, begs the question, where… Continue readingWhere Did Cloud Start And How Did We Get Here Today
For several years, application delivery controllers (ADCs) have been critical in meeting service-level requirements for enterprise applications implemented on-premises or in the cloud. A client communicating with a microservices-based app does not have to know about the occurrences that are supporting it to scale the client and microservices independently of each other. It is exactly the type of decoupling provided… Continue readingThe Top 5 Load Balancers for Microservices