It's probably a good idea to learn about enterprise architecture by talking to someone who's actually done it. In this episode, we talk with Stuart Charlton, now of Pivotal, but previously of roles where he EA's, even back in the SOA era! We discuss the mapping of traditional EA to cloud-native, and also some strategies for Coté to increase his Twitter followers, and, as ever, some recent cloud-native news.

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Upcoming Events

• Cloud Native Roadshow, various dates and cities: Stuttgart, Dallas, Denver, LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore.

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News

• Rackspace launches Pivotal Cloud Foundry managed service, spins up managed Google Cloud Platform beta. Managing PCF isn’t particularly hard, but sometimes you want a little help from your friends.

• The Difference Between SOA and Microservices Isn’t Size. Smart assessment from RedMonk’s Steve O’Grady that looks at why microservices have staying power. Complementary piece by James Governor recalls the state of affairs when SOA popped up.  This was/is something like a $20-25bn business (based on 2011 Gartner market-sizing).

  • Stuart: "we did all this work [in SOA], and then we couldn't deploy them."

• Report: Amazon Web Services warming up to Kubernetes for container management. Container-heads get the same runtime in lots of places? Maybe so. See also two years of Kubernetes and bumping up against it becoming a PaaS.

• Microsoft’s cloud business is still on a tear, hitting a $18.9 billion run rate during Q4. Cloud seems to generate lots o’ money for Microsoft.

• TCP BBR congestion control comes to GCP – your Internet just got faster. How can a Big 3 cloud provider differentiate itself? By using its own network to improve the performance to Google services, and to end users.

• Some recent EA discussions: last time here, with Matt Walburn, and then with Matt Curry and Andrew Clay Shafer.

About the Author

Coté works on the advocate team for Pivotal Cloud Foundry®. See @cote for more.

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