A few weeks ago, we blogged about the importance of tech scale-ups focusing on the…

Cloud migration, technical debt and more: our most-read blogs of 2020
Events of 2020 accelerated the cloud adoption and digital transformation strategies of many businesses. So,…

The top 5 blockers of a Cloud Migration
What are the major blockers to an organisation’s cloud migration? The Flexera State of Cloud Report …

The Top 5 Benefits of Managed Cloud
Why use a 3rd party cloud managed services provider (“Cloud MSP”) to help you manage your cloud…

What is event-driven automation and why do you need it?
The A in the CALMS model of DevOps stands for Automation. Automation is the key…

So, you’re doing DevOps. But what about self-service?
The big question for any tech scale-up is how to grow revenue without a parallel…

Modern operations: five foundational pillars
So, you’ve invested in the cloud. Most systems and applications are now built there or…

Five ways DevOps helps with technical debt
Many organisations uncover mountains of technical debt during their migration to the cloud. But what…

5 ways product-centric IT improves value delivery in a chaotic world
Enterprise organisations traditionally favour the project-led corporate IT model. With logical and structured processes, it…

Wales Tech Week: Free Cloud, Agile and DevOps workshops
Monday sees the launch of the first-ever Wales Tech Week, a forum for knowledge,…

Three reasons to perform a Well-Architected Review now, not later
Have challenges posed by Covid-19 accelerated your cloud adoption strategy? If so, now is a good time…

Is outsourced operations a DevOps anti-pattern?
In theory, outsourcing offers many benefits, from labour elasticity to economies of scale. It has…

The role of DevOps in Gartner’s strategic tech trends for 2020
Gartner’s annual crystal-balling of strategic technology trends for the year ahead has become something of…

Andrew Urwin: Lead Azure Engineer and Microsoft MVP
Finding the right talent for any team can be one of the hardest tasks when…

Four ways to reduce ‘all-in’ cloud migration risks
Our recent blog ‘How to pace yourself in the race to the cloud’…

How to pace yourself in the race to the cloud
The cloud-race is in full swing, and analysts expect it to continue for the foreseeable…

Cloud operating models: how to expand skillsets, practices and procedures
Moving to the cloud is a complex undertaking. It’s far more than a tech-centric re-platforming…

Is technical debt strangling your scale-up? Here’s how to loosen its grip.
Crossing the threshold from start-up to scale-up is cause for celebration. But it also marks…

Cloud migration: 5 common traps & how to avoid them
For most organisations, migrating to the cloud happens in four broad phases. There’s the opportunistic…

Hacking AWS
While preparing for a Security Game Day with workloads running on AWS, I decided to…