Deploying a Python Flask web app on AWS Lambda

The best server is no server? OK, servers are still involved with “serverless computing“, but not ones that you and I need to worry about maintaining and scaling. While serverless platforms like Amazon’s AWS Lambda, Google’s Cloud Functions, IBM’s OpenWhisk, Microsoft’s Azure Functions, and others aren’t the right fit for every need, I’m beginning to think they’re …

Get Off of My (Enterprise) Cloud

Cloud computing may save the universe, but it won’t be saving the enterprise’s universe any time soon. At least that’s what I’ve gathered over the months of reading and hearing about cloud computing ad nauseam. The enterprise needs security, reliability, manageability, etc. and these are not available in the cloud today. I’m a bit puzzled. …