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Two Curves in Change Management

Kubler Ross and Innovation Diffusion Curves

Many change initiatives fail or do not have lasting impacts. We’ll look into the key factors behind it through Kubler Ross and Innovation Diffusion curves

The Red Flag In Front Of Asset Based Consulting

Asset Based Consulting (ABC) isn’t a new concept in the consulting industry. Comparing with the traditional people-based consulting, ABC provides many benefits to customers, consulting companies and individual consultants. However, it’s yet widely (effectively) adopted. In this article,…

FaaS Comparison – AWS vs Azure vs GCP

In our Cloud Product Mapping article, we’ve mapped Compute – FaaS services provided by AWS, Azure and Google Cloud (GCP). We’ll compare these three vendors’ FaaS services with more details in this article. About Serverless and FaaS Before…

Web Redirect via .htaccess

In our Web Redirect via AWS Route 53 article, we’ve talked about how to redirect a domain name to another website. In this article, we’ll talk about how to use different types of Apache directives within a .htaccess…

Compliance Comparison – AWS vs Azure vs GCP

“Moving to the cloud” appears more and more in organizations’ strategy and roadmap nowadays. Along the migration, “Regulatory Compliance” also becomes a hot topic. In fact, regulatory compliance is always a hot topic, but its temperature raises more…

Storage Service Comparison – AWS vs Azure vs GCP

AWS, Azure and GCP are key players in the cloud storage market. We will compare the storage services from these three Cloud Service Providers (CSP) in this article.

Monitoring Service Comparison – AWS vs Azure vs GCP (Part 2)

Following the Part 1 article, we’ll go through the remaining parts, including View, Act and Cost comparison among these three Cloud Service Providers (CSP) in this article.

Monitoring Service Comparison – AWS vs Azure vs GCP (Part 1)

In our Cloud Product Mapping article, we’ve mapped Monitoring services provided by AWS, Azure and Google Cloud (GCP). We’ll compare these three vendors’ monitoring services with more details in two articles, starting from this one.

VPN Service Comparison – AWS vs Azure vs GCP

In our Cloud Product Mapping article, we’ve mapped VPN services provided by AWS, Azure and Google Cloud (GCP). In this article, we’ll compare these three vendors’ VPN services with more details. Theory Before we start the comparison, let’s…

Cloud Product Mapping – AWS vs Azure vs GCP

AWS vs Azure vs GCP products and services

More and more companies start to adopt multi-cloud strategy nowadays. This article provides a category-by-category mapping for cloud products/services from AWS, Azure and GCP(Google Cloud) with reference links pointing directly to these CSP’s product home page. A few notes…

GCP’s Cloud Adoption Framework

Having gone through both AWS and Azure’s Cloud Operating Model (COM) in our previous articles, we’ll take a look at how Google Cloud (GCP) approached it in this article. Similar to AWS and Azure, GCP have a well…

AWS’s Cloud Operating Model Framework

We’ve discussed how Azure define a cloud operating model in our previous article. Azure have set the Cloud Operating Model (COM) as part of their Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). The COM and CAF together have covered the three…

Azure’s Cloud Operating Model Framework

What is a cloud operating model? When we ask this question, we probably will get many different answers. If we extend the question by asking, what does it contain? We will get various answers too. But we can…

Design Thinking on Set-Based Design (SBD)

When we are in a product development lifecycle, we often face a situation when we have to make a design decision upon multiple viable options. Down the line our choice may not turn out to be the best…

Stop PPT Slide Change from Scrolling

I like to use PowerPoint to be my canvas for drawing notes and design thinking. However, one annoying thing is that when I try to scroll up or down to the edge of the slide, it automatically switches…

AWS VPC Sharing

We have multiple options to connect VPCs together. But when the volume of VPCs increases to a point, it becomes an overhead for maintenance and increases security risks. In this case, we can use VPC sharing to reduce the number of VPCs and manage them centrally.

AWS VPC to VPC Connection Options

AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is one of the most popular features of AWS. It provides a logically isolated network layer for the compute instances. But when users have multiple VPCs, how to connect them together so that the compute instances from different VPCs can communicate with each other. We’ll go through the VPC connection options in this article.

Journey of API

Over 20 years of development, API has grown from an abstract concept to a big family in production. In this article, we’ll go through the journey of API from three different aspects, i.e. Components of API, Types of API and Future of API.

Azure Lighthouse

We’ve talked about AWS cross-account management options in our Assume Role and SSO articles. How do we effectively manage subscriptions and services across multiple tenants in Azure? Azure Lighthouse submits a good answer to this question. We’ll talk more about the Azure Lighthouse service in this article.