Joey D'Antoni

What Is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? The SRE Role Explained

05/27/25 Historically, there was a clear delineation between what system administrators (SysAdmins) do and what application developers are responsible for in IT organizations. In r…

Containers vs. Virtual Machines: Rivals or Friends?

11/01/22 Containers have been the buzz among developers in recent years with the adoption of cloud-native orchestration tools like Kubernetes and DevOps workflows centered around c…

How Businesses Are Benefiting from Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures

10/24/22 Side by side with the popularity of hyperscale public cloud providers such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, many organizations maintain on-premises data centers. Organizations …

Why Understanding and Reducing Technical Debt Matters

10/10/22 Technical debt is a term that comes up frequently in IT organizations—whether to characterize software development, tech stack, or infrastructure. For instance, does your …

What is Chaos Engineering? A Guide on Its History, Key Principles, and Benefits

08/18/22 Many organizations invest in high availability and disaster recovery for their key applications. Too many of these organizations, however, forego the most important aspect…

What’s a Webhook?

08/05/22 If you’re a developer or site reliability engineer, you might have noticed options to use webhooks in your cloud monitoring or automation settings. And if you have a great…

When Legacy Systems Still Make Sense: The Role of Legacy Tech in Your Hybrid Digital Transformation

05/16/22 Despite all the attention cloud systems and enterprise cloud migrations receive, legacy software still plays an active role throughout enterprises. In many cases, critical…

Popular Hybrid Cloud Providers Compared

05/02/22 As enterprises begin migrating to the public cloud, it’s important to realize this movement doesn’t happen in one fell swoop. Typically, cloud migration workloads move in …

What Are Microservices? Advantages and Examples

02/09/22 As enterprise applications changed over time to serve different business needs and computer systems evolved from the monolithic architecture of mainframes into client-serv…

What Is a System Administrator? A Complete Guide to SysAdmin Roles and Responsibilities

02/01/22 System Administrators (SysAdmins) often represent the core of IT organizations. SysAdmins manage the organization’s computing infrastructure, encompassing servers, virtual…

What Is a Distributed System?

01/24/22 Before you can answer this question, I like to step back and take a good look at the history of computing. Mainframes and legacy client-server applications were monolithic…

Master Data Management and Data Governance—How to Build an Effective Strategy

10/19/21 As organizations marshal their data to drive business value throughout the enterprise, it’s becoming more important than ever to ensure the quality of this data. Building …