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Billy Thompson
Billy Thompson is a Cloud Engineering Manager at Akamai.
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Workloads on Any Cloud: Designing a Cloud Portability Strategy
Feb 22, 2024
by Billy Thompson
Maximize cloud computing performance and cost savings with a cloud portability strategy and widely adopted cloud-native practices.
Developer Tools
Make Git Your Single Source of Truth for Application and Infrastructure Delivery
Jan 10, 2024
by Billy Thompson
Not to be confused with DevOps, GitOps applies DevOps practices to infrastructure and application lifecycle management.
Developer Tools
Manage Highly Available Containers and More with HashiCorp Nomad Cluster App
Oct 3, 2023
by Billy Thompson
HashiCorp's lightweight workload scheduler, Nomad, is now available as a highly available cluster deployment in our Marketplace.
Developer Tools
Portability in the Cloud: Standardization & Benefits of a Portable Cloud Architecture
Aug 24, 2023
by Billy Thompson
When designing for portability and standardization, identify lock-in points where a cloud vendor could prevent you from moving workloads.
Developer Tools
Portability in the Cloud: Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) & Serverless Computing
Jul 25, 2023
by Billy Thompson
EDA is reactive to events or messages and it triggers specific actions rather than relying on direct, synchronous communication.
Developer Tools
Portability in the Cloud: Cloud Native and Containers
Jun 20, 2023
by Billy Thompson
Cloud native technologies are essential for building highly-portable applications in the cloud. Discover container best practices and more.
Containers (Kubernetes, Docker)
Portability in the Cloud: Microservices Architecture
Jun 12, 2023
by Billy Thompson
Microservices should be scalable and focused on a single responsibility. Discover why you should consider them and some best practices.
Developer Tools
Deploy a Cloud-Based Electronic Document Management System
Nov 2, 2022
by Billy Thompson
Our reference architecture demonstrates a cloud EDMS using open source tools including PostgreSQL, Mayan, and Linode Object Storage.
Databases
Galera Database Reference Architecture for MySQL and MariaDB
Mar 4, 2022
by Billy Thompson
Design a highly-available database architecture with Galera database for MySQL or MariaDB.
Databases
Continuous Operations and High Availability with Galera Database Clusters
Jun 15, 2021
by Billy Thompson
Fast and easy deployment of Galera with Ansible is an example of how open source software works together on Linode.
Databases