Lightenna @lightenna

What are your favourite web/digital/tech conferences? After a prolonged busy period of inattendance, most of the ones I used to love don't seem to exist any more (apart from SXSW which is very pricey now).

fascinated by the real-time web - blog.reactiveconf.com/challenges-of-… - and the implications for rich web application design - rauchg.com/2014/7-princip… - facilitated by CRDTs - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-…

After three years in the making (and testing), we're now delighted to be offering our managed Kubernetes platform as a service lightenna.com/services/kuber… ; month-by-month commitment, production-ready containers, simply hosted, reliably delivered... or you could always do it in-house

Vendor hype pushes technology products into our organisations, but they're not always a good fit. Here are 7 counter strategies to help inform and maximise the value of your purchasing decisions: lightenna.com/tech/2019/push…

Spot the errors you might not otherwise notice: duplicate categories, missing links or mismatch menu items in your Shopify Navigation. Category Advisor is now available (at no additional cost) in all the Uncomplicated Category apps. youtu.be/F6X9ZrWxW_A

Just posted this question on @digitalocean Q&A. Any ideas? digitalocean.com/community/ques…

Technical debt sounds horrific for a business developing its web site or web service, but it's actually pretty healthy if managed. Fear not the tech debt! lightenna.com/tech/2019/fear… #techdebt #business #webservices

Web services are so much more than their software; teams more than their processes; startups more than their idea. Whether you're investing in your own website or buying or selling someone else's, you're probably asking these questions lightenna.com/tech/2018/web-… #cloud #ebusiness

Tempting to focus a #Cloud strategy on lambdas, #servers and VPCs, but really it's all about people. If your team feels confident with the tools and technologies that allow them to deliver great web services in the Cloud, then they'll get there quickly #devops #devopstraining

Terraform's a great tool for the soloist, but managing state files locally doesn't scale well when you're a team of DevOps engineers. Thankfully there's a great S3 backend that makes pulling/pushing the latest state init-egral lightenna.com/tech/2018/stor… #cloud #devops #terraform

4-minute video summarising the elements that go into a well-constructed Cloud framework

In designing a cloud framework, for me it comes down to "start simple, start with people, but aim for a holistic well-constructed Cloud" lightenna.com/tech/2018/clou…

Much-hyped and misunderstood, GraphQL isn’t for everything but it might be just right for your API lightenna.com/tech/2018/zero…

Legacy systems (of any type) pervade almost every one of our roles, yet they are pretty universally hated. What can we do for our tomorrow-selves to break the circle? lightenna.com/tech/2018/symp…

Sunsetting my 2010 start-up Surfy Surveys, I wrote up a summary of the things I learned and the value of obsessively putting customers at the centre of any product or service lightenna.com/tech/2018/suns…

What is #DevOps and critically what does it cost? Recorded a short video for those wrestling with building #cloud dev teams and embedding a collaboration culture lightenna.com/tech/2018/cost…

Greater competition means we've got to do greater things, but that's mankind's next great challenge lightenna.com/tech/2018/writ…

Clarity, context, comfort - been thinking about what it takes to do the hard thing and push myself up the mountain alexstanhope.com/in/2018/leadin…

pulled together a few notes on spinning up AWS Lambda functions lightenna.com/tech/2018/aws-… (part 1 of a few if people are interested)

DevOps is the key to collaborating through development to operation of a digital service, but with so many moving parts it's important to manage it comprehensively lightenna.com/tech/2018/cost…