Modern Digital Applications is changing and coming back after its year long hiatus. Join us for the launch of Modern Digital Business!Modern Digital Business will be coming later this summer. If you'd like to be informed when it's ready to laun

The Great Repo Debate with Kevin Goslar, p2

Mar 10th, 2021 34m 56s

My guest today is Kevin Goslar. Kevin is the Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy at Originate, a digital agency that helps organizations with digital transformation best practices. He has a PhD in business informatics, and is an avid

The Great Repo Debate with Kevin Goslar, p1

Feb 24th, 2021 33m 15s

Learning from Incidents with Beth Long, p2

Feb 3rd, 2021 28m 36s

My guest today is Beth Long. Beth worked at New Relic where she held roles in both engineering and marketing, including two years leading the Reliability Engineering team, which owned the tooling and process for incident response and analysis.

Learning from Incidents with Beth Long, p1

Jan 20th, 2021 30m 42s

ICYMI: Reducing the Risk of Your Cloud Migration

Dec 30th, 2020 10m 3s

The scheduling of a cloud migration is a complex undertaking that should be thought and planned in advance.But in order for a migration to be successful, it’s important that you limit your risk as much as possible during the migration itself, s

ICYMI: Avoid Downtime When Migrating Data to the Cloud

Dec 16th, 2020 11m 38s

Moving your data is one of the trickiest parts of a cloud migration. During the migration, the location of your data can have a significant impact on the performance of your application. During the data transfer, keeping the data intact, in syn

Future of Cloud Identity with Thomas Curran, p2

Dec 2nd, 2020 17m 35s

My guest today is Thomas Curran. Thomas is a cloud executive with many years of experience, including VP of Technology and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom and Technology Advisor at Deutsche Börse. He is the co-founder of the Ory Software Foundat

Future of Cloud Identity with Thomas Curran, p1

Nov 18th, 2020 18m 4s

Reducing the Risk of Your Cloud Migration

Oct 14th, 2020 10m 56s

The scheduling of a cloud migration is a complex undertaking that should be thought and planned in advance. Typically, a migration architect is involved and makes the difficult technical decisions of what to migrate when, in concert with the or

AWS Certifications with Kevin Downs, p2

Sep 30th, 2020 19m 39s

Amazon Web Services provides a cloud certification program to encourage and enable growing your AWS cloud technical skills to help you grow your career and your business. Have you wondered what it takes to become AWS certified?In this episode,

AWS Certifications with Kevin Downs, p1

Sep 16th, 2020 17m 12s

Likelihood and Severity

Sep 2nd, 2020 16m 9s

Likelihood and Severity. Two different measures for two different aspects of measuring risk in a modern digital application.They are both measures of risk, but they measure different things. What is the difference between likelihood and severit

Five Causes of Poor Availability

May 20th, 2020 11m 7s

Building a scalable application that has high availability is not easy. Problems can crop up in unexpected ways that can cause your application to stop working and stop serving your customer’s needs.No one can anticipate where problems will com

Why you must scale

May 6th, 2020 12m 51s

We often hear that being able to scale your application is important. But why is it important? Why do we need to be able to suddenly, and without notice, scale our application to handle double, triple, or even ten times the load it is currently

Risk Management with Ken Gavranovic

Apr 29th, 2020 20m 34s

Ken Gavranovic was the Executive Vice President and GM for product at New Relic. In early 2019, Ken and I were in Boston together for an event, and we recorded an interview discussion about Risk Management in modern digital applications.Both Ke

How to Improve Application Availability, p2

Apr 15th, 2020 14m 43s

Modern applications require high availability. Our customers expect it, our customers demand it. But building a modern scalable application that has high availability is not easy and does not happen automatically. Problems happen. And when prob

How to Improve Application Availability, p1

Apr 8th, 2020 13m 26s

How to maintain availability with multiple AWS accounts

Apr 1st, 2020 12m 50s

In this episode, we know that using multiple availability zones helps increase your application availability and resiliency by distributing our application across multiple disperse data centers. But did you know that availability zones don’t ne

Special Edition: The Great Serverless Debate, Redux — Special Guest Clay Smith, part 2

Mar 18th, 2020 28m 57s

This is a special edition of Modern Digital Applications.July 9th, 2018 was the launch of a podcast episode. It was an episode of the “Modern Software Podcast”, a podcast sponsored by New Relic, and hosted by New Relic’s Fredric Paul and Tori W

Bonus

News Report: Architecting for Scale, 2nd Edition

Mar 16th, 2020 1m 28s

The second edition of my book, Architecting for Scale, is now available!Links and More InformationBook Website (https://architectingforscale.com)Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Architecting-Scale-Maintain-Availability-Manage/dp/1492057177/)O

Special Edition: The Great Serverless Debate, Redux — Special Guest Clay Smith

Mar 11th, 2020 22m 56s

Modernizing and Dynamic Infrastructures

Mar 4th, 2020 11m 12s

In this episode, Our customers depend on them, and our businesses depend on them. Without modern web apps, most businesses would not survive. This is the second in a two part series on the principles for modernizing your enterprise web applicat

Modernizing Your Web Applications

Feb 26th, 2020 10m 9s

In this episode, Our customers depend on them, and our businesses depend on them. Without modern web apps, most businesses would not survive. I’ll present the first in a two part series on the principles for modernizing your enterprise web appl

Avoiding Downtime while Migrating Data to the Cloud

Feb 19th, 2020 14m 26s

In this episode, the hardest part of your cloud migration is moving your data to the cloud. Moving your data to the cloud, without suffering planned or unplanned downtime, can be a challenge.I’m going to give you three strategies that will help