Modernization is a journey, and it starts with the user experience in mind. It must draw a parallel between the organization’s future and its operational complexity. — By Ernese Norelus, Sreeni Pamidala, and Oliver Senti Creating a business case for an application modernization project: business requirements change, and businesses need to transform towards a digital model to realize opportunities that were never obtainable before the emergence of the cloud. These days most relevant companies build their entire…

Introduction to site reliability engineering (SRE) and how you should monitor and keep your systems fast and reliable as they scale. — By Ernese Norelus and Erhan Saygi In the cloud era, customer experience is the new mantra for any serious business, a mission statement. The customer experience, usability, and accessibility are determined at the edge, where websites are expected to be always available [24/7/365]. …

Build & Deployment processes in a real-time cloud-native project with a Kubernetes CI/CD approach for the enterprise with Serverless Jenkins (Jenkins X). — The new era of DevOps is about the change that brings developers, IT operations, quality assurance, and business together with a common goal to get projects out faster and of better quality while focusing on collaboration as an extension of the agile principles. Speed is the new norm in software…

DevOps is not something you buy; it’s something you do. DevOps is a re-organization practice that focuses on automated environments, provisioning, and process improvement to reduce cycle time by removing bottlenecks and also an organizational culture shift that promotes breaking down silos and minimizing hand-offs. …

Chatbot, also known as “conversational agent”, is a trending technology. Chatbots are changing the business landscape. Its emergence in the enterprise has several implications that require some thought. Building a bot is not a hard task; with the rise of many platforms, it’s now easier than ever to develop and…

The objective of any API is to meet the business’s goals in mind. Complicated as it may sound, building an API is easy! Where the challenge lies is in developing the right API that does precisely what the business need by following the principle of good design where APIs need…

The API Economy is helping companies transform and realize opportunities that were never obtainable before the emergence of the cloud. The cloud is a game-changer and disrupts most companies, both from within and from new market players, using application programming interfaces (APIs). Thus, the proliferation of API-related technologies is shaping…

As the saying goes, “Bad governance is like bad design; it makes life harder”. With that in mind, we opt for a design-first approach. …

Serverless (Functions-as-a-Service) computing is the next step in cloud evolution. This blog is co-authored with Enrique (Ike) Relucio as part of our IBM Garage Engagements. Developing a single application is easy, but how do you go about showing extensible use of cloud-native features with multiple functions? We wanted to show a bit more than the traditional HelloWorld. In recent years…