Modern Digital Business

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 person should be given only the access required to get the job done, and absolutely no more permissions than that . To give someone more access than they absolutely need is t...

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 Cloud. It's time to turn our attention to scary things…scary movies, scary TV shows, scary home decorations, scary costumes. But when it comes to working with customers and clie...

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 About Lee Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, public speaker, and recognized thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His most recent book,&nbsp...

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 into public clouds like AWS or Azure, they face a challenge that is often overlooked. How do I transform an organization from a typical on-premise company to a cloud-native clou...

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 incident analysis company. This will be our second in a series of episodes. In the first episode, we talked about how the experience using the cloud varies from large companies to...

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”. There’s more to it than that. My guest today is Mitch Ashley, the CTO of Techstrong Group. Techstrong is the publishers of DevOps.com , and other publications. In this episode of...

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 halt jeopardizing your company's future. DNS is essential to the operation of all aspects of the internet and modern digital businesses. The problem with DNS, is that a very tiny...

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 customer experiences from their technologies. This stifled innovation means lower long term revenue. Eventually, technical debt will sink you. What is technical debt and how c...

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 architectures, on the other hand, can scale more easily and predictably because they rely on pooled resources. As demand goes up, more resources can be added to the pool quick...

Today on Modern Digital Business, I’m starting a new series on the podcast—the series is called ModernOps. I’ll be hosting this series along with a good friend of mine, Beth Long, who is the Head of Product at Jeli.io , an incident analysis company. This will be our first of a series of episodes. In this first episode, we will be talking about how the experience using the cloud varies for large co...

How are the finances of your company affected by a Cloud Migration? Showing a financial benefit of using the cloud can be a bit tricky. You need to show that shutting down an operating data center and moving that money to pay the bill of a cloud provider will, in fact, save you money. How can a cloud provider provide technical resources cheaper than doing the same thing in house? The answers may s...

Welcome to modern digital business, a podcast for corporate technology decision-makers and executives looking to create or extend their digital business with the help of modern applications, processes, software architecture, and organizational modernization. My name is Lee Atchison, and I'll be your host. I'm a recognized industry thought leader in cloud computing and a published author with more...