Ian 'Uther' Lawson

Developer Advocate, OpenShift Evangelist

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Ian 'Uther' Lawson was a software engineer in the real world for 20+ years before joining Red Hat as an Open Source fanatic. For the last 10 years he has been a Domain Solution Architect, talking to anyone and everyone about the brilliance of OpenShift and other Red Hat products. He now works as a Developer Advocate and gets to enthuse all the time.

Ian Lawson's contributions

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Understand modernization of a traditional Java application with an example

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Developers frequently work with monolithic applications. However, the popularity of these monolithic applications has waned due to their lack of flexibility. Scaling a specific component requires scaling the entire application. Transitioning to a microservice architecture, with modular, independently scalable units addresses these challenges and is well-suited for cloud environments. This article focuses on moving a monolithic application, exemplified by a Java™-based e-commerce app called Pedal, to the cloud, offering guidance for this complex task.

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Is the network blocking your journey to hybrid cloud?

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Is networking blocking your ability to connect cloud, on premises, and edge applications together? Running applications in the cloud across multiple hyperscalers, on premises data centers, and out at the network edge is a challenge. It generally means using complex and sometimes proprietary technologies to create network architectures to accomplish these goals.