Welcome to Modern Digital Applications - a podcast for corporate decision makers and executives looking to create or extend their digital business with the help of modern applications, processes, and software strategy. Your host is Lee Atchison, a recognized industry thought leader in cloud computing and published author bringing over 30 years of experience. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podtrac - https://analytic ...
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Notice: New podcast starting later this summer
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Modern Digital Applications is changing and coming back after its year long hiatus. Join us for the launch of Modern Digital Business! Modern Digital Business will be coming later this summer. If you'd like to be informed when it's ready to launch, please go to mdb.fm/launch. We hope to see you there! This podcast uses the following third-party ser…
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The Great Repo Debate with Kevin Goslar, p2
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My guest today is Kevin Goslar. Kevin is the Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy at Originate, a digital agency that helps organizations with digital transformation best practices. He has a PhD in business informatics, and is an avid software developer. He currently is the maintainer for Git Town, an open-source project that provides a hi…
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The Great Repo Debate with Kevin Goslar, p1
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My guest today is Kevin Goslar. Kevin is the Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy at Originate, a digital agency that helps organizations with digital transformation best practices. He has a PhD in business informatics, and is an avid software developer. He currently is the maintainer for Git Town, an open-source project that provides a hi…
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Learning from Incidents with Beth Long, p2
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My guest today is Beth Long. Beth worked at New Relic where she held roles in both engineering and marketing, including two years leading the Reliability Engineering team, which owned the tooling and process for incident response and analysis. She also led New Relic's collaboration with the SNAFU Catchers, a group of researchers in- vestigating how…
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Learning from Incidents with Beth Long, p1
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My guest today is Beth Long. Beth worked at New Relic where she held roles in both engineering and marketing, including two years leading the Reliability Engineering team, which owned the tooling and process for incident response and analysis. She also led New Relic's collaboration with the SNAFU Catchers, a group of researchers in- vestigating how…
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ICYMI: Reducing the Risk of Your Cloud Migration
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The scheduling of a cloud migration is a complex undertaking that should be thought and planned in advance. But in order for a migration to be successful, it’s important that you limit your risk as much as possible during the migration itself, so that unforeseen problems don’t show up and cause your migration to go sideways, fail outright, or resul…
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ICYMI: Avoid Downtime When Migrating Data to the Cloud
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Moving your data is one of the trickiest parts of a cloud migration. During the migration, the location of your data can have a significant impact on the performance of your application. During the data transfer, keeping the data intact, in sync, and self-consistent requires either tight correlation or—worse—application downtime. Moving your data a…
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Future of Cloud Identity with Thomas Curran, p2
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My guest today is Thomas Curran. Thomas is a cloud executive with many years of experience, including VP of Technology and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom and Technology Advisor at Deutsche Börse. He is the co-founder of the Ory Software Foundation, which is the owner of a very popular open source, go-based, identity management library named Kratos,…
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Future of Cloud Identity with Thomas Curran, p1
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My guest today is Thomas Curran. Thomas is a cloud executive with many years of experience, including VP of Technology and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom and Technology Advisor at Deutsche Börse. He is the co-founder of the Ory Software Foundation, which is the owner of a very popular open source, go-based, identity management library named Kratos,…
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Reducing the Risk of Your Cloud Migration
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The scheduling of a cloud migration is a complex undertaking that should be thought and planned in advance. Typically, a migration architect is involved and makes the difficult technical decisions of what to migrate when, in concert with the organization management to take into account the business needs. But it’s important for a migration to be su…
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AWS Certifications with Kevin Downs, p2
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Amazon Web Services provides a cloud certification program to encourage and enable growing your AWS cloud technical skills to help you grow your career and your business. Have you wondered what it takes to become AWS certified? In this episode, I conclude my interview with Kevin Downs, a trial by fire expert on the AWS certification program, as we …
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AWS Certifications with Kevin Downs, p1
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Amazon Web Services provides a cloud certification program to encourage and enable growing your AWS cloud technical skills to help you grow your career and your business. Have you wondered what it takes to become AWS certified? In this episode, join me with Kevin Downs, a trial by fire expert on the AWS certification program, while we discuss the A…
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Likelihood and Severity. Two different measures for two different aspects of measuring risk in a modern digital application. They are both measures of risk, but they measure different things. What is the difference between likelihood and severity? And why does it matter? In this episode, I’ll discuss Likelihood and Severity, how they are different,…
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Building a scalable application that has high availability is not easy. Problems can crop up in unexpected ways that can cause your application to stop working and stop serving your customer’s needs. No one can anticipate where problems will come from and no amount of testing will identify and correct all issues. Some issues end up being systemic p…
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We often hear that being able to scale your application is important. But why is it important? Why do we need to be able to suddenly, and without notice, scale our application to handle double, triple, or even ten times the load it is currently experiencing? Why is scaling important? In this episode, I am going to talk about four basic reasons. Fou…
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Risk Management with Ken Gavranovic
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Ken Gavranovic was the Executive Vice President and GM for product at New Relic. In early 2019, Ken and I were in Boston together for an event, and we recorded an interview discussion about Risk Management in modern digital applications. Both Ken and I have experience dealing with Risk Management issues in current and past assignments. I discuss Ri…
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How to Improve Application Availability, p2
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Modern applications require high availability. Our customers expect it, our customers demand it. But building a modern scalable application that has high availability is not easy and does not happen automatically. Problems happen. And when problems happen, availability suffers. Sometimes availability problems come from the simplest of places, but s…
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How to Improve Application Availability, p1
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Modern applications require high availability. Our customers expect it, our customers demand it. But building a modern scalable application that has high availability is not easy and does not happen automatically. Problems happen. And when problems happen, availability suffers. Sometimes availability problems come from the simplest of places, but s…
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How to maintain availability with multiple AWS accounts
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In this episode, we know that using multiple availability zones helps increase your application availability and resiliency by distributing our application across multiple disperse data centers. But did you know that availability zones don’t necessarily give you the separation you expect? In fact, it is entirely possible to have two instances of a …
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Special Edition: The Great Serverless Debate, Redux — Special Guest Clay Smith, part 2
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This is a special edition of Modern Digital Applications. July 9th, 2018 was the launch of a podcast episode. It was an episode of the “Modern Software Podcast”, a podcast sponsored by New Relic, and hosted by New Relic’s Fredric Paul and Tori Wieldt. This particular episode was titled “The Great Serverless Debate”. It was a debate between myself, …
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News Report: Architecting for Scale, 2nd Edition
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The second edition of my book, Architecting for Scale, is now available! Links and More Information Book Website (https://architectingforscale.com) Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Architecting-Scale-Maintain-Availability-Manage/dp/1492057177/) O’Reilly (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920274308.do) Special Report Hello everyone and welcome t…
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Special Edition: The Great Serverless Debate, Redux — Special Guest Clay Smith
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This is a special edition of Modern Digital Applications. July 9th, 2018 was the launch of a podcast episode. It was an episode of the “Modern Software Podcast”, a podcast sponsored by New Relic, and hosted by New Relic’s Fredric Paul and Tori Wieldt. This particular episode was titled “The Great Serverless Debate”. It was a debate between myself, …
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Modernizing and Dynamic Infrastructures
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In this episode, Our customers depend on them, and our businesses depend on them. Without modern web apps, most businesses would not survive. This is the second in a two part series on the principles for modernizing your enterprise web application. And then, what is STOSA and how does it help with modern digital applications? Links and More Informa…
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In this episode, Our customers depend on them, and our businesses depend on them. Without modern web apps, most businesses would not survive. I’ll present the first in a two part series on the principles for modernizing your enterprise web application. And then, what does any of this have to do with my son and his wage reporting application? Links …
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Avoiding Downtime while Migrating Data to the Cloud
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In this episode, the hardest part of your cloud migration is moving your data to the cloud. Moving your data to the cloud, without suffering planned or unplanned downtime, can be a challenge. I’m going to give you three strategies that will help you avoid downtime during the migration of your critical application data to the cloud. And in Tech Tapa…
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Google Cloud Next is coming to the Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 6 until April 8. This is Google’s big cloud event of the year. Links and More Information The following are links mentioned in this episode, and links to related information: Announcement — Google Cloud Next (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/join-us-…
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How to Use Service Tiers and Redundancy in Outer Space
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In this episode, we conclude our three part series on Service Tiers, and how they can be used to prevent disasters in applications using service based architectures. We also take a look at the very first AWS service. Any guess what that service is? Finally, what does redundancy look like in outer space? And just how effective was the space shuttle …
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Amazon recently announced a reduction in the cost of their Elastic Kubernetes Service. They lowered the cost of the Amazon EKS service by 50%. The new pricing is greatly appreciated, but is still a barrier to entry in using the EKS service for small clusters. Links and More Information The following are links mentioned in this episode, and links to…
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More Service Tiers and How Big is S3?
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Hello and welcome to Modern Digital Applications. In this episode, we continue our three part series on Service Tiers, and how they can be used to prevent disasters in applications using service based architectures. We also take another look at Amazon S3, and ask the question, how large is S3? The answer might surprise you. All of this, in this epi…
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Show Notes Welcome to the inaugural episode of Modern Digital Applications! I’m very glad you are listening, and I hope you’ll find this podcast informative and helpful. My goal is to try and keep the episodes short, so that they can be consumed during a single morning average commute trip to work. Please, let me know how I am doing and what I can …
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Welcome to Modern Digital Applications
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Modern Digital Applications is a podcast focused on helping corporate decision makers, executives, and architects create or extend their digital business with the help of modern applications, processes, and software strategy. The podcast is hosted by Lee Atchison, a recognized industry thought leader and pundit in cloud computing. Lee has over 30 y…
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