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Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 1 – Docker images
When I say “PaaS” what comes to mind? If you’re like most people I talk to, you think of public cloud platforms for modern web apps. So I’ll forgive you if you didn’t realize that things are different...
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Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 2 – TCP-routable services
Platform-as-a-Service products typically run web apps. That is, apps that accept HTTP traffic and listen on ports 80, 8080 or 443. As you survey the landscape today, you’ll find that’s still the case...
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Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 3 – Background, batch, and...
So far in this series of posts, we’ve seen that Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) runs a lot more than just web applications. Not every app has a user-facing front-end component. Some of your systems run in...
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Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 4 – Data pipelines
Streaming is all the rage! No, not binge-watching Arrested Development on Netflix. Rather, I mean data stream processing: ingesting and handling infinite datasets. Instead of chewing through a nightly...
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Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 5 – .NET Framework apps
Looking for a host suitable for .NET Framework apps? Windows Server virtual machines are almost your only option. The only public cloud PaaS product that offers a higher abstraction than virtual...
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My new book on modernizing .NET applications is now available!
I might be the first person to write a technical book because of peer pressure. Let me back up. I’m fortunate to be surrounded by smart folks at Pivotal. Many of them write books. We usually buy...
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Go “multi-cloud” while *still* using unique cloud services? I did it using...
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “multi-cloud”? Ok, besides stupid marketing people and their dumb words. You might think of companies with on-premises environments who are moving some...
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Eight things your existing ASP.NET apps should get for “free” from a good...
Of all the app modernization strategies, “lift and shift” is my least favorite. To me, picking up an app and dropping it onto a new host is like transferring your debt to a new credit card with a...
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Fronting web sites, a classic .NET app, and a serverless function with Spring...
Automating deployment of custom code and infrastructure? Not always easy, but feels like a solved problem. It gets trickier when you want to use automation to instantiate and continuously update...
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Looking to continuously test and patch container images? I’ll show you one way.
A lot of you are packaging code into container images before shipping it off to production. That’s cool. For many, this isn’t a one-time exercise at the end of a project; it’s an ongoing exercise...
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