Pat Stingley, who is well known in the government cloud computing space, has been sharing his own thoughts on “cloud architecture,” including his initial thinking on the topic. Pat and I have ...

Saurabh Dave is a seasoned cloud computing and distributed systems expert with over two decades of experience in software development, architecture, and team leadership. He has played a pivotal ...

Focus on new metrics and approaches to build and deploy an optimal solution. As cloud computing architecture comes of age, the ways we define success should mature as well. In 2021, I pointed out ...

This document presents the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (RA) and Taxonomy (Tax) that will accurately communicate the components and offerings of cloud computing. The guiding principles ...

The guiding principles used to create the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (NIST SP 500-292) were to develop a vendor-neutral architecture, or design, consistent with the NIST cloud ...

Before there was cloud computing, there was service oriented architecture (SOA). While cloud encompasses implementation and application delivery options, SOA is concerned with the foundation ...

Public cloud: Perhaps the most common kind of cloud computing architecture, a public cloud is owned and operated by a third party and makes its resources available to customers, generally on a ...

Serverless architecture is no longer the future of computing—it is the present. According to a Datadog survey of 20,000 of their customers, the majority of companies with public cloud services ...

Cloud architects are responsible for managing the cloud computing architecture in an organization, especially as cloud technologies grow increasingly complex. Cloud computing architecture ...