Making the Cloud, Microservices, and Enterprise IT work!

  I was reading Mike Kavis’s Do This, Not That: 7 Ways to Think Different in the Cloud and encountered what initially sounds like reasonable advice…but becomes absolutely unrealistic.  I’ll explain why at the end.  Mike writes… Think Empower, Not Control The first thing many companies do when they start their cloud initiative is figure out how to lock it down. Too often, the people who own security and governance spend months (sometimes years) trying to figure out how to apply controls necessary to meet their security and regulatory requirements. Meanwhile, developers are not allowed to use the platform or worse yet, they whip out their credit card and build unsecured and ungoverned solutions in shadow clouds. We need to shift our thinking from “how can we prevent developers from screwing up” to “how can we empower developers” by providing security and governance services that are inherited as cloud resources are consumed. To do this, we need to get out of...