Jenkins World – A Global DevOps Event 2017

Posted on August 1, 2017October 18, 2019 by Idexcel Technologies

Date : August 28-31, 2017
Location : Marriott Marquis
San Francisco, CA

Event Details

Jenkins World is THE event for everything Jenkins – community, CloudBees, ecosystem and DevOps. Jenkins World brings together DevOps thought leaders, continuous delivery practitioners and the Jenkins community and ecosystem in one global event, providing attendees with the opportunity to learn, explore, network face-to-face and help shape the next revolution of Jenkins development and solutions for DevOps. Jenkins World is designed specifically for IT executives, DevOps practitioners, Jenkins users and partners.

Why Attend

In 2017, the event will be held in San Francisco at the Marriott Marquis, August 28-31, and will bring together over 1,500 continuous delivery thought leaders, IT executives, DevOps practitioners, Jenkins experts, users and partners from all over the world. We will provide expanded content for everything Jenkins and DevOps; covering culture, process design, automated testing, performance measurement, security and more. The welcome reception and evening event in the Expo Hall will provide added opportunities for networking so you can can take your knowledge to the next level.

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About Idexcel: Idexcel is a global business that supports Commercial & Public Sector organizations as they Modernize their Information Technology using DevOps methodology and Cloud infrastructure. Idexcel provides Professional Services for the AWS Cloud that includes Program Management, Cloud Strategy, Training, Applications Development, Managed Service, Integration, Migration, DevOps, AWS Optimization and Analytics. As we help our customers modernize their IT, our clients should expect a positive return on their investment in Idexcel, increased IT agility, reduced risk on development projects and improved organizational efficiency.

Allolankandy Anand Sr. Director Technical Sales & Delivery will be attending this event. For further queries, please write to anand@idexcel.com

AWS Summits 2017 | New York

Posted on July 31, 2017October 18, 2019 by Idexcel Technologies

Date : August 14, 2017
Location : Javits Center
655 W 34th St
New York, NY 10001

AWS Summit New York

Why Should You Attend?

AWS bringing together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate and learn about AWS

Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn something new at the AWS Summit. This free event is designed to educate you about the AWS platform. Develop the skills to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications.

Learning

In this action-packed event, you have numerous opportunities to dive into AWS solutions in multiple formats, including breakout sessions, workshops, demos and paid day-long bootcamps. All sessions will be delivered by subject matter experts from AWS or expert customers who can share their real world experiences and lessons learned.

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Allolankandy Anand Sr. Director Technical Sales & Delivery will be attending this event. For further queries, please write to anand@idexcel.com

Small Talk Is an Overrated Way to Build Relationships with Your Employees

Posted on July 26, 2017October 18, 2019 by Idexcel Technologies

The relationships that you form with each of your direct reports are central to your ability to fulfill your three core responsibilities as a manager: Create a culture of feedback, build a cohesive team, and achieve results collaboratively. But these relationships do not follow the rules of other relationships in our lives; they require a careful balancing act. You need to care personally, without getting creepily personal or trying to be a “popular leader.” You need to challenge people directly and tell them when their work isn’t good enough, without being a jerk or creating a vicious cycle of discouragement and failure. That’s a hard thing to do.

When you can care personally at the same time that you challenge directly, you’re on the way to successful leadership. The term I use to describe a good manager–direct report relationship, and this ability to care and challenge simultaneously, is radical candor. So what can you do to build radically candid relationships with each of your direct reports? And what are the pitfalls to avoid?

The Difference between SOA and Microservices?

Posted on July 25, 2017October 18, 2019 by Idexcel Technologies

We’ve had a few articles over the years on the differences and similarities between SOA and microservices. Some suggest there is much to be learned from SOA whereas others believe that distancing microservices from SOA is more beneficial. Furthermore, Neal Ford, amongst others, has suggested that moving from monolithic architectures to a services-based approach may be easier than going to microservices. There has not been much activity recently around the overall “SOA or microservices” debate until RedMonk’s Stephen O’Grady published an article on the subject. In it O’Grady suggests that the size of the service is not the deciding factor, similar to what others have argued over the years, such as Dan North, and separately Jeppe Cramon stated:

Amazon Revels in Revenues from its Ever Expanding Cloud Business

Posted on July 19, 2017October 18, 2019 by Idexcel Technologies

There is no denying the fact that the Cloud has taken the world by storm (pun intended). As soon as Amazon revealed it’s financials within the financial world, Wall Street was abuzz with a lot of commotion. Believe it or not, but the Amazon Cloud is a $4.6 billion business, which is continuously growing. Even though this financial volume might seem to be trivial as compared to the total revenues generated through Amazon’s online retail business, nevertheless, it is a significant jump as compared to the rest of the similar providers in the market currently.

As per Amazon’s books, AWS grew around 49 percent in the year 2014, wherein it managed to earn $4.6 billion in revenues. In the first quarter of 2017, AWS has already amassed $1.57 billion in revenues, which is fast approaching the sales forecast of $6.23 billion by Q4. Despite the massive growth, AWS forms only 7% of the company’s overall revenue model. But this has not stopped Amazon from raising its hopes with the advent of AWS over the years.

Without doubts, the growth of AWS is an important milestone when it comes to ruling the Cloud market in terms of customer outreach and profitability. If the trends are to continue, Amazon might soon be known as a leader in the Cloud industry rather than just an online retail store leader.

Amazon leading the Cloudy way

AWS, Amazon’s Cloud venture has lead the company’s outreach in terms of providing extensive computing power over the Internet. One might wonder how AWS Cloud comes to the rescue of service seekers. The answer is rather simple; by taking the lead, Amazon is able to rent out Server space, storage systems and other software to businesses and developers, who need to stay afloat on the Internet.

With the advent of the Cloud know-how, technology giants like HP, Oracle, Dell and many others are slowly withering away. These giants used to sell hardware and software to companies and developers to setup within their own premises. While this proved to be a costly affair for the developers, it was nevertheless a profitable venture for the tech giants selling the hardware and software.
With the estimates rolling in, Amazon and its venture AWS will slowly gnaw its way to revenues of $40 billion in the next five years. As per Boston Consulting Group’s senior partner, Amazon is a leading service provider in the Cloud industry and will they will continue to lead the markets till the onset of the next few years.

Since Amazon is the undisputed leader in the world of Cloud technology, there is a lot riding on its Cloud business. However, the share of the market is on a constant decline, since there are a lot of entrants in the market currently. With Microsoft and Google also joining the Cloud business there is a lot of competition which is posing a threat for AWS’s share in the market. With a lot of investments in the new data centers, Amazon has to avoid being too smug about its increasing revenues, in order to remain grounded and excel in the ever expanding competitive market.

Life as an IT contractor | Network World

Posted on July 17, 2017October 18, 2019 by Idexcel Technologies

Independence, job variability, earning potential, skills development. But is it worth it?

The upside of life as an IT contractor is alluring. You get to be your own boss, accept only the jobs you want, and work flexible hours. With each assignment comes the opportunity to learn new skills and gain exposure to different environments.

But there are obvious sacrifices – job security and paid vacations, for starters. As an IT contractor, you’re also often responsible for your own benefits (healthcare, retirement), paying taxes, and marketing yourself for the next gig.

Tech pros who successfully balance the pros and cons of contracting play an important role in the IT world. They provide manpower when workloads spike and can bring key expertise or niche skills to a team. In recent years, companies have increasingly relied on a contingent workforce to augment their full-time staff. According to new survey data from IT staffing and services firm TEKsystems, 26% of IT hiring managers expect to increase headcount for contingent workers in the second half of 2017 (another 46% report that headcount will remain the same for temporary workers, and 13% say it will decrease).
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Why serverless? Meet AWS Lambda

Posted on July 12, 2017October 18, 2019 by Idexcel Technologies

Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, “function-as-a-service” platforms such as Microsoft Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and IBM OpenWhisk—simplify development by abstracting away everything in the stack below the code. Developers write functions that respond to certain events (a form submission, a webhook, a row added to a database, etc.), upload their code, and pay only when that code executes.

In “How serverless changes application development” I covered the nuts and bolts of how a function-as-a-service (FaaS) runtime works and how that enables a serverless software architecture. Here we’ll take a more hands-on approach by walking through the creation of a simple function in AWS Lambda and then discuss some common design patterns that make this technology so powerful. Read more..