Architecture

Most organizations engaged in transformation today are moving from left to right in digitally-driven maturity models. The objectives are well known: increase agility, boost productivity, and provide seamless digital experiences for consumers.

Architects play a pivotal role as the curators of this …

Architect Architecture Productivity Agile

Tales from the real world

Published on Fri, Sep 10, 2021

In this session, Chris is once again joined by Lee Williams. Chris and Lee talk through industry trends around Game Streaming (i.e. streaming games to your device, rather than livestreaming what you’re playing to others), and the opportunities this brings to game creators and consumers.

Architecture Gaming Streaming ESports Cloud Azure

Cloud gaming notes

Published on Wed, Sep 1, 2021

Chris is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. He’ll explore how GitHub Actions can be used to deploy your own static websites (or other apps!) to Azure.

Cloud Architecture Requirements Cloud Design Patterns

Occured on Thu, Aug 26, 2021

Azure Front Door - It’s an Azure Service that has been generally available for quite some time. It went Generally Available (GA) in April of 2019 after being in Public Preview since September 2018. It’s had several updates since, including a slew of Web Application Firewall enhancements, …

Architecture Azure Azure Resilience

Published on Thu, Aug 26, 2021

In this session, Chris is joined by Karl Cooke, Blogger at https://irishtechie.com. Chris and Karl talk all about the CloudWithChris.com integration platform, and the numerous automation/integration activities that Chris has in place to save time and focus on building content!

Messaging Architecture Integration App Development Architecture cloudwithchris.com

Published on Thu, Aug 19, 2021

You’ll have probably spotted by now that cloud architecture is a passion area of mine, and a regular topic that features on Cloud With Chris. We’ve talked a lot about Cloud Design Patterns and requirements-driven engineering in the past, as well as the various pillars of software …

Architecture Azure Azure Resilience

Published on Wed, Aug 18, 2021

Due to COVID-19, vOpen.Tech had to move so quickly from being a physical event to a virtual one. That meant that collecting registrations and user info as well as registering users had to be done online. Azure AD B2C was the silver bullet that allowed us to overcome and succeed, with almost no code …

Architecture Identity Azure AD Azure AD B2C

Tales from the real world

Published on Fri, Aug 6, 2021

Why was a revamp needed of the Cloud With Chris integration platform?

I’ve written blog posts previously around Azure Service Bus vs Azure Storage Queues, as well as an introduction to Azure Logic Apps and how I used it at the time. Back then, my use-case was fairly rudimentary and focused on …

Messaging Architecture Integration App Development

Published on Mon, Aug 2, 2021

I’ve recently been involved in a few integration focused discussions, where there is a requirement to bring together multiple separate systems. If you’ve been following the Architecting for the Cloud, one pattern at a time series, then you’ll have heard Peter Piper repeat a common …

Messaging Architecture Integration App Development

Published on Tue, Jul 13, 2021

There are so many types of data stores out there these days. You have relational, non-relational, documents, blob, tables, files and more. There’s also a growing awareness of ‘Polyglot Persistence’ where you use different data stores depending on the task. But how do you know which …

Architecture APIs Data How To

Architecting for the cloud, one pattern at a time

Published on Fri, Jul 9, 2021