Making the Cloud, Microservices, and Enterprise IT work!

Cloud Computing has strongly entered it’s hype cycle.  Just as everyone ran to relabel everything Service Oriented and ESB-this or that, now everything is being relabled Cloud this or that.  As soon as that happens we enter the technology confusion cycle.  (Sometimes one thinks this is intentional on the part of vendors, so you can’t tell exactly where their product fits or where it lacks.) Let’s see if we can do a little bit of Cloud Clarification™… -> Cloud Computing is about pushing applications, components, modules, abilities to an on-demand model with remote capacity. -> Software as a Service is about renting software abilities via a vendor exposing abilities, modules, business processes for remote use. -> Cloud Infrastructure , which is also being called Cloud Computing , is about renting remote computing/hardware capacity on demand and in fractional increments. About the best picture I’ve seen describing this is here… (though there’s some details in it