Welcome to another episode of Modern Digital Business, the podcast that helps you navigate the ever-changing landscape of modernizing your applications and digital business. In this episode, we continue our exploration of mod...
Play EpisodeWelcome to another episode of Modern Digital Business, the podcast that helps you navigate the ever-changing landscape of modernizing your applications and digital business. In this episode, we continue our exploration of mod...
Cloud native architectures have revolutionized the way businesses operate their applications and services in the cloud. This shift provides immense benefits, such as increased agility, scalability, and cost savings. However, ...
Welcome back to another episode of Modern Digital Business! In today's episode, we delve deeper into the world of modern operations with our special guest, Beth Long. We explore the essential role of service level agreements ...
This episode was well received last Halloween when it debuted. In case you missed it, how about a dose of ScaryOps? Here are my 3 scariest mistakes that companies make in the cloud. --- First, there was DevOps. Then, ModernOp...
In today's episode, "Don't Give Special Access," we tackle a crucial question: how can we grant developers and operations engineers the necessary access to our applications without compromising customer data or violating busi...
Welcome to another episode of Modern Digital Business, where we dive into the world of cloud architecture and explore the essential skills required to thrive in this dynamic field. In today's episode, we will uncover the fi...
Thought Leader, Cloud Expert, Application Modernization Expert, Author at O'Reilly Media, LinkedIn Learning, and InfoWorld.
Lee Atchison is a recognized industry thought leader in cloud computing. He has committed his career to architecting and building high-scale, cloud-based, service-oriented SaaS applications. He has specific expertise in building highly available systems.
Lee is the author of the best-selling book Architecting For Scale, published by O’Reilly Media. The book, originally released in 2016, recently went through a major upgrade and was released as the second edition in 2020.
He was the Senior Director for Cloud Architecture at New Relic. He was with New Relic for eight years, where, among other things, he designed and led the building of the New Relic Platform and infrastructure products. As architect lead, Lee has helped New Relic build a solid service-based system architecture that scales as they have grown from a simple SaaS startup to a high-traffic public enterprise.
Lee learned cloud-based, scalable systems while working for seven years as a Senior Manager and Principal Program Manager at Amazon.com. At Amazon, he led the creation of the company’s first software download store (app store), created the AWS Elastic Beanstalk offering (Platform as a Service), and led the team that managed the migration of Amazon’s retail platform from a monolith to an SOA-based architecture.
Lee is widely quoted in publications such as InfoWorld, Container Journal, Diginomica, IT Brief, Programmable Web, CIO Review, and DZone. He has been a featured speaker at events across the globe, from London to Sydney, Tokyo to Paris, and all over North America.
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