On this episode of Modern Digital Business, Lee invites Ken to discuss organizational design principles and the importance of aligning teams and leaders to drive desired outcomes. The conversation covers various topics such a...
In Case You Missed It On this episode of Modern Digital Business, we explore the necessary transition to a digital business model and the challenges that come with it, specifically in the realm of cloud computing. As the lead...
What is a cloud architect? What does a cloud architect do that’s different from what a developer does? What skills does someone need to have to move from a role as a software developer to a role as a cloud …
Most companies aren't in the billing space, yet they need to deal with pricing and billing as a core piece of technology, whether they want to or not. Stigg is an easy to implement, headless pricing and packaging platform tha...
What happens when a web application you depend on goes offline? It can be inconvenient, disappointing, and potentially cause serious problems for you. But what if you find out that the web application wasn’t working by design...
AutoCloud is an enterprise software platform used by companies to assist in their Infrastructure as Code deployments. Customers using AutoCloud can reduce cloud costs, security risks, complexity, and adoption time for Infrast...
What happens when observability becomes a commodity and is independently brokered via a third party? My guest today is Jeff Martens, who is the co-founder and CEO of Metrist, an independent third-party observability platform....
My latest book Overcoming IT Complexity, is now shipping! And how do you manage complex configurations in cloud-native applications? In this episode of MDB Weekly. Today on Modern Digital Business. Useful Links CloudNativeSec...
Modern businesses rely on applications, and they rely on continued innovation in those applications to drive their business. This strive for innovation creates a need for improved techniques for validating that an application...
Announcing the new Atchison Academy! Lee is live at Predict 2023. How do you give your dev teams choices without introducing too much complexity? Today on Modern Digital Business Weekly. Useful Links Choice vs. Complexity in ...
Welcome to my first issue of Modern Digital Business Weekly! This is a new format that I’m experimenting with. MDB Weekly will focus on articles, interviews and events of note I’ve released this last week, along with any anno...
The cloud has enabled a large variety of software and software-enabled infrastructure options for application development. It's hard to get lost in the variety of shapes and sizes of offerings available. ECS EKS, Lambda, Farg...
Creating a secure application requires many actions, but by far the most important are those that involve securing the data in the application; these are the most difficult actions. When it comes to securing application data,...
This is an encore episode of Modern Digital Business DevOps is now more mainstream. If you and your organization aren’t using DevOps principles, you are at a distinct disadvantage compared to your competition. And, “Doing Dev...
Operating a modern digital business means building and operating large, highly-scaled applications that are more and more cloud-native in their architecture and implementation. Observability is critical in maintaining the hig...
Application security is a critical aspect of all application design and architecture. Security best practices specify that nobody should be given universal access to any system or service. Instead, a given service, system, or...
First, there was DevOps. Then, ModernOps and CloudOps. Now, there is ScaryOps. Welcome to the special Halloween Edition of the Modern Digital Business podcast. In this episode, the 3 Scariest Mistakes Companies Make in the Cl...
What do model airplanes have to do with avoiding application failures? This is Tech Tapas Tuesday, a "little bit of tech". Today on Modern Digital Business. Useful Links Architecting for Scale, 2nd Edition, O’Reilly Media Abo...
In the past few years, cloud computing has become a dominant trend in enterprise IT. The benefits of moving to the cloud are clear, lower costs, flexibility, and scalability. But as more companies move their infrastructure in...
Today on Modern Digital Business, we continue our highly successful series called ModernOps. ModernOps is a series of interviews co-hosted with a good friend of mine, Beth long, who is the head of product at jeli.io, an incid...
DevOps is now more mainstream. If you and your organization aren’t using DevOps principles, you are at a distinct disadvantage compared to your competition. And, “Doing DevOps” does not mean simply “hiring a DevOps team”. The...
DNS is a highly available, highly redundant, highly reliable service that is absolutely essential to your company's application and business operations. A failure in your DNS system can bring your company's business to a ha...
The pandemic accelerated many large scale digital transformations. Accelerated application growth often leads to increased technical debt. Technical debt makes it difficult for leaders to innovate and create new and improved ...
How do cloud architectures differ from non-cloud infrastructure architectures? Cloud architectures benefit from easy scaling. With traditional architectures, adding capacity is often a complicated and expensive ordeal. Cloud ...