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Dec. 14, 2023

ModernOps with Beth Long: Operational Ownership

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...

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Nov. 30, 2023

Four Challenges Facing Cloud Architects

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, ...

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Nov. 9, 2023

ModernOps with Beth Long: Talking SLAs

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 ...

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Oct. 26, 2023

ICYMI: Special Halloween Edition: The 3 Scariest Mistakes Companies M…

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...

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Aug. 31, 2023

Don't Give Developers Special Access - Balancing Access and Data Prot…

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...

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Aug. 17, 2023

Five Skills All Cloud Architects Require

 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...

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Aug. 3, 2023

ModernOps: Talking STOSA with Beth Long, Part 2

On this episode of Modern Digital Business, host Lee Atchison continues his conversation with guest Beth Long about Stosa, or single team-oriented service architecture. In this episode, they delve into the makeup of healthy S...

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July 20, 2023

ModernOps: Talking STOSA with Beth Long, Part 1

On this episode of Modern Digital Business, we dive into the world of ModernOps and talk STOSA (Single Team Oriented Service Architecture) with Beth Long. This is part 1 of a two part discussion with Beth Long, an operations ...

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July 6, 2023

Does low code make applications overly complex?

 On this episode of Modern Digital Business, we dive into the development world and discuss the complexity that comes with low-code platforms. Host Lee Atchison helps unpack the ongoing debate surrounding low code developmen...

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June 22, 2023

Reducing Complexity in your Configuration Management Strategy

On this episode of Modern Digital Business, we dive into the complexities of managing configurations in modern cloud-native applications. Hosted by Lee Atchison, we explore the best practices for managing configuration files,...

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June 8, 2023

Getting What You Intend from Your Organizational Design -- Business B…

On this episode of Modern Digital Business, Lee invites Ken to discuss organizational design principles and the importance of aligning teams and leaders to drive desired outcomes. The conversation covers various topics such a...

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May 25, 2023

ICYMI: Do you need a Cloud Center of Excellence?

In Case You Missed It On this episode of Modern Digital Business, we explore the necessary transition to a digital business model and the challenges that come with it, specifically in the realm of cloud computing. As the lead...

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May 11, 2023

What You Need to Learn to Become a Cloud-Native Architect

What is a cloud architect? What does a cloud architect do that’s different from what a developer does? What skills does someone need to have to move from a role as a software developer to a role as a cloud …

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April 27, 2023

Modern Pricing Plans with Dor Sasson, CEO Stigg

Most companies aren't in the billing space, yet they need to deal with pricing and billing as a core piece of technology, whether they want to or not. Stigg is an easy to implement, headless pricing and packaging platform tha...

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April 13, 2023

Don’t Depend on Maintenance Windows

What happens when a web application you depend on goes offline? It can be inconvenient, disappointing, and potentially cause serious problems for you. But what if you find out that the web application wasn’t working by design...

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March 30, 2023

Automating your Automation with Tyson Kunovsky, CEO AutoCloud

AutoCloud is an enterprise software platform used by companies to assist in their Infrastructure as Code deployments. Customers using AutoCloud can reduce cloud costs, security risks, complexity, and adoption time for Infrast...

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Jan. 26, 2023

Independent Third Party Observability with Jeff Martens, CEO Metrist

What happens when observability becomes a commodity and is independently brokered via a third party? My guest today is Jeff Martens, who is the co-founder and CEO of Metrist, an independent third-party observability platform....

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Jan. 16, 2023

MDB Weekly for Jan 16, 2023

My latest book Overcoming IT Complexity, is now shipping! And how do you manage complex configurations in cloud-native applications? In this episode of MDB Weekly. Today on Modern Digital Business. Useful Links CloudNativeSec...

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Jan. 12, 2023

Testing at Scale with Nate Lee, Co-Founder of SpeedScale

Modern businesses rely on applications, and they rely on continued innovation in those applications to drive their business. This strive for innovation creates a need for improved techniques for validating that an application...

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Jan. 9, 2023

MDB Weekly for Jan 9, 2023

Announcing the new Atchison Academy! Lee is live at Predict 2023. How do you give your dev teams choices without introducing too much complexity? Today on Modern Digital Business Weekly. Useful Links Choice vs. Complexity in ...

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Jan. 2, 2023

MDB Weekly for Jan 2, 2023

Welcome to my first issue of Modern Digital Business Weekly! This is a new format that I’m experimenting with. MDB Weekly will focus on articles, interviews and events of note I’ve released this last week, along with any anno...

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Dec. 19, 2022

Simplifying Cloud Complexity with Tim Holm, Nitric

The cloud has enabled a large variety of software and software-enabled infrastructure options for application development. It's hard to get lost in the variety of shapes and sizes of offerings available. ECS EKS, Lambda, Farg...

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Dec. 5, 2022

Securing Data at Rest and in Motion

Creating a secure application requires many actions, but by far the most important are those that involve securing the data in the application; these are the most difficult actions. When it comes to securing application data,...

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Nov. 21, 2022

ICYMI: DevOps with Mitch Ashley, CTO of Techstrong Group (DevOps.com)

This is an encore episode of Modern Digital Business DevOps is now more mainstream. If you and your organization aren’t using DevOps principles, you are at a distinct disadvantage compared to your competition. And, “Doing Dev...

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