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Cloud, Platforms & Infrastructure

The platform shifts that reshaped how software gets built and shipped.

How the platform layer evolved, from VMs and bare metal through containers, serverless, and the modern cloud. Built from the ground up.

4 articles
  1. 01
    STEP 1·Jan 2015
    Jan 2015·6 min

    Virtual Machines vs Bare Metal: Where Performance Still Matters

    Everyone around me keeps saying the same thing lately: just spin up a VM, it's easier. And they're not wrong. But I've started noticing something strange, sometimes things feel just a bit slower, and nobody can really explain why.

  2. 02
    STEP 2·Mar 2015
    Mar 2015·7 min

    Docker Changed Everything and Most People Missed It

    In early 2015 I watched a colleague containerise an app in twenty minutes that had taken three days to set up on a new server. That was the moment I understood what Docker actually was.

  3. 03
    STEP 3·Jun 2015
    Jun 2015·6 min

    The Rise of DevOps Was Not About Tools

    Everyone thought DevOps was about Jenkins and Ansible. The teams that actually succeeded figured out it was about removing the wall between the people who build software and the people who run it.

  4. 04
    STEP 4·Nov 2016
    Nov 2016·5 min

    AWS re:Invent 2016 and the Serverless Moment

    At AWS re:Invent 2016, Lambda had been generally available for two years. The conference made it clear that serverless was no longer a curiosity. It was a category.

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