Cloudreach: being one step ahead for working parents
This morning my son woke up ill. Before working for Cloudreach, this would have meant phoning in my absence for the day, leaving colleagues in the lurch and (possibly) being in the boss’ bad books. But not now! I’m a guilt-free Mum and a full-time employee who works for a company leading the way […]
Freight Management: Solving real-world problems using GCP data tools
The Challenge Helping a freight management customer prepare better for heavy traffic and congestion Earlier this month we were asked by GCP to demo the power of their data tools to a prospective customer who are new to the world of Public Cloud and want to find new ways to use their data to drive […]
From Monolith to Micro-Serverless
We built a production-ready application in less than 3 weeks (eyebrow raise). I’m talking an available and scalable system that runs on-demand (what’s the catch?). And we did this whole thing without the help of a single DevOps guru (blasphemy!). If the title of this article didn’t already give it away, we built a set […]
Change delivery strategy and the cloud: changing company gears
In the journey to the Cloud, Change Management strategies are often an afterthought. In our efforts to adopt the Cloud, how we approach and embrace Change Management at different layers determines our overall success. Looking for change The cloud has unlocked the ability for organizations, large and small, to benefit from the scaling […]
Recapping on Google Cloud Next 2018
At Cloudreach we are increasingly involved in GCP projects for our customers and we recently had another internal drive to encourage more Cloudreachers to get certified in GCP following the successful push we had towards the end of last year. After getting the Professional Cloud Architect certification in December, I decided to take the Professional […]
A Face in the Cloud – Zach Morgan, Business Development Consultant
Here at Cloudreach, we believe that the growth of a great business is fuelled by great people. It is our talented individuals that make Cloudreach the success it is. Zach Morgan, our Business Development Consultant, has been instrumental in helping us grow our cloudy presence in the Midwest. We caught up with him ahead of […]
Using Sceptre to package and deploy complex AWS Lambda
At Cloudreach, hundreds of deployments are run every day to create or modify Lambda functions for our customers. Things usually go smoothly, until there is a dependency on a package which does not exist in AWS runtime. The question then arises: how do we package and deploy this function? That’s where Sceptre comes in! […]
Two Blocks Away is heading to re:Invent!
It all started with a Hackathon Hackathon’s are great events for improving and up-skilling people, whilst having fun, creating and innovating as a team. Two Blocks Away was an entrant to our .create() Hackathon, and it was such a fantastic concept that we’re taking it to re:Invent 2018! We were looking for something eye-catching that demonstrates […]
Microsoft Inspire 2018 – a week in the desert
Writing this post on my way back from Microsoft Inspire 2018 – this year held in Las Vegas, Nevada. In July. It’s hard to describe the heat unless you’ve been to a desert before, but it’s 40+ degrees in the summer, all day. Weather aside, it’s been a great week and I thought it worth […]
