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From Adoption to Mastery: Reaching Cloud Native Maturity

Pini Reznik | Sep 6, 2024 | Cloud Native Organisation

From Adoption to Mastery: Reaching Cloud Native Maturity

Five years ago, I wrote “Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation” drawing from my 5 years in Cloud Native consulting and over 2 decades in IT. The book’s core message was that Cloud Native—defined then as containers, microservices, and dynamic scheduling—was a transformative business change. It wasn’t just new tools, but a shift from monolithic to distributed systems. Conway’s Law dictated that this architectural change necessitated an organizational one.

Calculating Cloud VM CPU Carbon Emissions

Gabi Beyer | Feb 28, 2024 | Green Software Methodologies Cloud Native Calculations

Calculating Cloud VM CPU Carbon Emissions

Like many others, we at re:cinq have been attempting to measure energy consumption of virtualized services running on cloud providers. I mean… how else is one going to reduce carbon emissions if they cannot be measured to begin with?

Greening your K8s Workloads

Michael Mueller | Feb 26, 2024 | Sustainable IT DevOps Cloud Native Efficiency Optimisation

Greening your K8s Workloads

Energy efficiency is at its best around and above 80% of server utilisation as described by Brendan here¹. So how can this be achieved with Kubernetes core functionality, while still being able to handle fluctuating load.

Beyond DevOps and Delivery: Embracing Sustainability in IT

Michael Mueller | Jan 15, 2024 | Sustainable IT DevOps Cloud Native Efficiency Optimisation

Beyond DevOps and Delivery: Embracing Sustainability in IT

The DevOps and Cloud Native movements have revolutionised IT, focusing on optimising delivery through readily available and affordable on-demand computing power. This accessibility, however, has led to challenges of resource overuse and inefficiency, often resulting in “throwing resources at problems” rather than finding efficient solutions.