‘Single-purpose’ software served as a much-needed breakthrough in enterprise software development. Such software manifested themselves on central systems wherein information was collated across business functions to enable actionable decision-making. The rise of their customization to suit business needs brought with it many challenges with regard to such software. Systems that span across several business functions, such as ERPs and CRMs for instance, experienced rigidity in scaling up and frequent iterations, leading to cumbersome systems. Businesses are slowly finding themselves drawn to a new operating model that will revamp their existing software framework and allow agile and independently scalable software to function. This is microservices. Read more on how this enterprise architecture approach fits like a glove in a customer-centric, mobile age here.

The article talks about the hybrid/ multi-cloud space and how major cloud vendors, especially Google is foraying into this area. It talks about Google Anthos, an enterprise hybrid and multi-cloud platform, which lets you build and manage modern hybrid applications on existing On-Prem DC or in the cloud. It covers the key components which make up Google Anthos such as GKE, Istio Velostrata and others along with the partner ecosystem that Google has in place for Anthos. Last, but not the least, it talks about how Google Anthos impacts the Industry Dynamics/ Hybrid Cloud Ecosystem and what all benefits it provides to the enterprise customers.

This blog describes technology shift, fundamental changes happening in the field of monitoring, major considerations to be taken for selecting a monitoring solution and the need for full stack monitoring in Containerized Environments. It also talks about point of view on full stack monitoring in containerized environments.