Generative AI seems to be everywhere these days. ChatGPT, the current generative AI poster child in the media at large is a product based on the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model. There are other chatbot-style generative AIs in play as well, Claude, Neema, Sage to name a few. In the …
Stop doing local development – Containerize it!
TL;DR There are numerous challenges when developing locally that can be solved by containerizing development and production workloads. Local development and many and serious concerns, such as security breaches, difficulties in setting up the right environment, and limitations imposed by access to bandwidth. Containerization can provide a more efficient development …
Is it Time for you to Leave the Cloud?
Robert Starmer, Kumulus’ Founder and CTO shares his insights into the decision-making process of cloud migration or cloud repatriation and provides practical advice on how to manage a successful and repeatable migration. Does it make sense to migrate your current cloud environment back into a self-managed or third-party managed data …
Kubernetes is not the Container Manager you are Looking for.
Today I wanted to talk about Kubernetes. This is really a topic that is due for review. I think most people are overdoing what they’re thinking about interacting with Kubernetes as a platform. I believe Kubernetes is not the container manager you’re looking for. I know that’s not the thing …
Stop throwing Money Away On Cloud
How can you control the costs of deploying services in the cloud? While I will unpack this a bit below, the answer, in a word, is automation. We’ve seen cloud systems not just cost more than they need to, but even fail because they were manually driven and failed to …
Accelerate your Digital Transformation with Continuous Deployment on Gitlab and Kubernetes
Continuous deployment on the open-source software Gitlab and Kubernetes provides a number of benefits to application developers or anyone that treats infrastructure as code. Robert Starmer, CTO of Kumulus Technologies, breaks down the value proposition of implementing a Gitlab-based CI/CD model that is moveable across cloud platforms whether you are …
Understanding CICD: Continuous Integration/ Deployment/ Delivery
You’ve worked with software development and explored any sort of automation, you’ve certainly come across the acronyms CI and CD, more commonly combined as CICD. While the CI, continuous integration, aspect is fairly well understood by software developers as a part of the development process, CD is more mysterious. In …
Cloud Adoption Strategy: Public Cloud or Private Cloud?
Many companies only consider the public cloud model when considering a digital (cloud) transformation. In this episode, Kumulus Technologies CTO and Founder, Robert Starmer, argues that there are cases when a private cloud will provide greater value to your business. Robert takes a closer look at some of the assumptions that …
The Pitfalls in Cloud Adoption
We all tend to be dazzled by the bright and shiny new things, rushing to the adoption of a new technology due to a perception of fast and easy returns on minimal investment. It’s been said that hope is not a strategy, yet when it comes to implementing cloud-based technologies many …
NoOps – Is this the Future of DevOps?
NoOps – as in “No Operations” – has been suggested as the next step in the evolution of DevOps. DevOps, after all, in some minds, freed application developers from the shackles of IT overlords that stingily doled out hardware resources. This was good, but managing infrastructure is not what devs …