Vamsi Chemitiganti

Over the years, I have had the good fortune of working with some of the best engineering talent in the financial services industry on cutting edge, realtime platforms. A customer who led the way in the Capital markets space is FINRA.

At AWS, I lead the global container practice for two key verticals – Telcos and M&E (Media and Entertainment). My group spends a lot of our time being customer-focused and working with customers & partners on a daily basis to understand trends, use cases, and business goals.

Running Kubernetes on bare metal infrastructure is complex, requiring specialized expertise and significant customer investment in time and the tools needed to automate Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management.

As service providers begin to roll out 5G POCs and initial deployments, there is no question that these cloud native platforms will be huge Capex and Opex investments on their part. These platforms should be able to handle diverse workloads such as telco, edge and enterprise applications. They must be efficient as well as robust from an operational standpoint. They must also serve the operator well for years. While it is never my intention to be hyperbolic or combative, the question is if Openstack is a viable 5G platform – when compared with hyperscaler clouds.

Ericsson just released the twenty-second edition of their authoritative Mobility Report, in which they continue to follow the evolution of the telecom industry. Ericsson calls out 5G as scaling faster than any previous mobile generation. This blogpost summarizes the key findings of the report from a 5G subscriber growth & global distribution standpoint.

Using the above architecture and dataflow model, eBPF programs can be attached to key ingress and egress points when the kernel processes networking packets. That leads us to SDN, monitoring, tracing et al.

This post is an introduction to eBPF where we will discuss the key capabilities Solutions Architects and Technology Managers should look for. We will follow up with a deep-dive around individual capabilities in the following posts.

This post will consider the top four intertwined system architecture considerations in deploying edge applications successfully on a hardware platform.

This week’s blog is a joint post by Nati Shalom, CTO Cloudify and yours truly. We discuss the need for multiple K8s clusters along with Network orchestration.

We continue our technology-focused look into industry verticals by beginning a series in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry. Perhaps no other industry vertical, apart from Healthcare, has had such…