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Billy Thompson

Billy Thompson is a Cloud Engineering Manager at Akamai.

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Billy Thompson

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
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Billy Thompson

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
Deploy HashiCorp Nomad Cluster with Marketplace!
Billy Thompson

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
Billy Thompson

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
Billy Thompson

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
Billy Thompson

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
Billy Thompson

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
Billy Thompson

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
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Billy Thompson

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
Billy Thompson

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