Kalyan Ramanathan, VP Product Marketing, SumoLogic | AWS re:Invent 2017
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https://siliconangle.com/2017/12/07/modernizing-apps-sans-cloud-infra-is-putting-lipstick-on-a-pig-says-report-reinvent/
Modernizing apps sans cloud infra is ‘putting lipstick on a pig,’ says report
Bad news for those in business to cloud wash legacy applications to modernize them without overhauling the infrastructure: The modern app is a cloud app up and down the stack, according to Kalyan Ramanathan (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Sumo Logic Inc. That’s the gist of Sumo Logic’s special report, “The 2017 State of the Modern Apps in the Cloud.”
Cloud infrastructure advancements are so core to the architecture of modern apps, that foregoing them and tweaking at the app level is “putting lipstick on a pig,” Ramanathan said. “Can you get away with it for a year or so? Absolutely. But when you’re talking about dealing with extreme scalability, high elasticity, security of the kind that is needed for most enterprises, that’s where the legacy technology and just a sprinkling of dust is going to fall apart.”
Ramanthan cracked open the report with John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren), chief analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd, during the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Deconstructing the cloud app
Sumo Logic pulled its insights from the anonymous data of its 1,600 customers. Legit modern applications have three characteristics in common, according to Ramanthan. First, they are architected (or re-architected) in a public cloud like Amazon Web Services Inc. or Microsoft Corp.’s Azure. Second, they are usually built with hyper-agile development operations for an off-the-charts iterative cycle. Third, they are built out of microservices for Lego-like arrangement and rearrangement.
Some technologies standout as top picks for modern cloud app developers across the board. “On the infrastructure side, Linux rules as an operating system,” Ramanathan said. Linux is even opted often by users of Microsoft’s cloud despite its association with Windows.
Containers — a virtualized method for running distributed applications — are whisking more and more apps around the cloud lately. Last year, 18 percent of Sumo Logic customers used Docker Inc. containers. This year, it’s one in four, Ramanthan stated.
An interesting quirk of cloud apps is that they can have multiple databases. “In the cloud world, NoSQL and SQL are pretty much head to head,” Ramanathan said. Redis — an open-source, NoSQL in-memory database popular with the Kubernetes community — spiked in popularity this year, he concluded.
Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent.
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Kalyan Ramanathan, SumoLogic | AWS re:Invent 2017
Kalyan Ramanathan, VP Product Marketing, SumoLogic | AWS re:Invent 2017
#reInvent #theCUBE
https://siliconangle.com/2017/12/07/modernizing-apps-sans-cloud-infra-is-putting-lipstick-on-a-pig-says-report-reinvent/
Modernizing apps sans cloud infra is ‘putting lipstick on a pig,’ says report
Bad news for those in business to cloud wash legacy applications to modernize them without overhauling the infrastructure: The modern app is a cloud app up and down the stack, according to Kalyan Ramanathan (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Sumo Logic Inc. That’s the gist of Sumo Logic’s special report, “The 2017 State of the Modern Apps in the Cloud.”
Cloud infrastructure advancements are so core to the architecture of modern apps, that foregoing them and tweaking at the app level is “putting lipstick on a pig,” Ramanathan said. “Can you get away with it for a year or so? Absolutely. But when you’re talking about dealing with extreme scalability, high elasticity, security of the kind that is needed for most enterprises, that’s where the legacy technology and just a sprinkling of dust is going to fall apart.”
Ramanthan cracked open the report with John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren), chief analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd, during the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Deconstructing the cloud app
Sumo Logic pulled its insights from the anonymous data of its 1,600 customers. Legit modern applications have three characteristics in common, according to Ramanthan. First, they are architected (or re-architected) in a public cloud like Amazon Web Services Inc. or Microsoft Corp.’s Azure. Second, they are usually built with hyper-agile development operations for an off-the-charts iterative cycle. Third, they are built out of microservices for Lego-like arrangement and rearrangement.
Some technologies standout as top picks for modern cloud app developers across the board. “On the infrastructure side, Linux rules as an operating system,” Ramanathan said. Linux is even opted often by users of Microsoft’s cloud despite its association with Windows.
Containers — a virtualized method for running distributed applications — are whisking more and more apps around the cloud lately. Last year, 18 percent of Sumo Logic customers used Docker Inc. containers. This year, it’s one in four, Ramanthan stated.
An interesting quirk of cloud apps is that they can have multiple databases. “In the cloud world, NoSQL and SQL are pretty much head to head,” Ramanathan said. Redis — an open-source, NoSQL in-memory database popular with the Kubernetes community — spiked in popularity this year, he concluded.
Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent.
