Emma Button was inspired by a conversation from a prior work team with the morning after she’d spent a long weekend on call. Instead of searching for the “human” cause of a production outage, she realised we should focus on facts, truthfulness and accountability. Emma shares with the world some actionable improvement katas we can all practice to help us prepare for and embrace failure. Most humans aren’t well-equipped to respond positively to poor feedback. We tend to roll ou

HIGH AVAILABILITY “The ability for a system to always be functioning and accessible, with minimal downtime” For any business, it is vital for their customers to have access to their systems at all times, with no downtime. (Downtime = any time the system is not available). For every second a customer facing system is down, it may equate to missed sales and could negatively impact the reputation of the business through lowered customer satisfaction. Even slow responses can have

In our travels as cloud application and cloud infrastructure consultants, nubeGO consultants have contributed to web applications for both B2B and B2C clients hosted in private VPCs or openly accessible on the internet through the public cloud. Security is at the top of our list and at the forefront of our minds whenever we embark upon a new advisory or implementation project. Securing your web applications shouldn't be an after-thought, even when building internal applicatio