Meredith Courtemanche

Get ready for 2021 with the most popular research, how-tos and advice from 2020. Use these tips from software testing professionals, Agile practitioners, developers and other IT experts to push your organization forward in the new year.

Hosted as a low-cost virtual event, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 offers a broad array of technical sessions that can help you scale and improve Kubernetes deployments.

Want expert advice to kick off a container and Kubernetes implementation at your company? Many of the sessions at KubeCon North America are made for you.

The virtual format of KubeCon 2020 means Kubernetes adopters can learn from their peers and take in expert presentations on Kubernetes and related technologies.

The pandemic has caused organizations to reevaluate IT infrastructure spending patterns. Now, IT teams must figure out which projects are essential and which ones will remain unaffected from any delays.

Private cloud is not limited to private data centers. There are a range of choices for enterprise IT, on premises and off-site. Build a private cloud on privately owned infrastructure, public cloud services or a combination of the two.

As application architects face significant shifts in user volumes and increased user activity, they are learning that downtime and poor performance are not an option. We review some scaling and caching design choices that can help ensure high availability for microservices.

No matter its purpose, a mobile application must meet expectations from users and corporate stakeholders. Here are 14 mobile app KPIs that you need to know.

To decompose a monolith into microservices, you could take the application offline or halt all updates and rewrite everything. Or you could follow this practical approach.

Enterprise developers in these low-code examples didn’t want to abolish programming. Instead, they invested in OutSystems and Pega Platform, respectively, to deliver apps faster, on a consistent platform, and tailored to their users’ needs.

No requirements, no problem -- at least for teams that opt for a user-centric approach to software prototyping. Learn how application teams can reshape their sprints to focus on design and deliver vivid, tangible user interfaces.

IT organizations need a detailed AWS migration checklist to ensure each step happens the right way, for the right reasons, and with the right support for a given app or workload. Use this checklist to guide AWS adoption and move to DevOps, with expert advice on tools, techniques and training.

Experts share points of comparison for Lambda vs. the competition, and what other options AWS has for elastic computing without the serverless hassle.

An enterprise architect must act as a leader and, at the same time, focus on guidance that doesn’t stifle development. A practice known as continuous architecture can help establish a collaborative development environment that bases decisions on constant communication and evaluation.

Containers and Kubernetes adoption is still just getting started. In these popular tips on container orchestration strategies and costs, experts explain how to buy tools and what to do when containers are finally live in production.

Git version control offers a distributed tool with easy code merges, users say, but Git is just one -- purely open source -- option among many tools.

Facebook’s Phil Dibowitz shares tools, mistakes and advice gleaned from the Internet giant’s recently completed Chef DevOps migration.

For upgrades and migrations, IT organizations need to know their data center size and density, and how to communicate that effectively to partners.

VMware vCloud Director organizes resources into virtual data centers; vCloud Automation Center manages workloads on multiple clouds. But VMware vCAC and vCD don’t always work together.