Paul Oliver, Principal Software Architect at Vosaic (formerly Studiocode) in Lincoln, Nebraska, is enjoying the current price war between Amazon and Azure’s cloud services.
“It is amazing that the big heavyweights in the cloud are fighting it out—Azure, AWS, Rackspace,” said Oliver. “They’re just duking it out and we’re reaping the benefits. It’s like a Skittles rainbow falling down with all these discounts and price decreases.”
Similar to Hudl‘s video analytics platform for sports, Vosaic does video analytics for educational institutions. Oliver is in charge of moving Vosaic to a cloud-based microservices architecture over the next year.
“Hudl had to go to microservices to scale. I heard a statistic that they are, behind YouTube, the second most popular web site on the internet on Friday nights during football season,” said Oliver. “They are handling so much data and so much video. I would hate to pay that cloud bill every month. But they gladly pay it because it gives them so much value.”
Oliver describes microservices as a “drone army” of little sections of code that allow cloud-based SaaS companies to scale much larger. The interest in microservices has been a force behind the recent growth of cloud services like Amazon and Azure.
“Going to a microservices architecture, you’re going to be faster,” said Oliver.
Along with companies like Spotify and Netflix, microservices are beginning to take hold in Omaha’s more established companies like Union Pacific, First Data and CSG, according to Oliver.
“It got really big in 2014, as the hype cycle goes,” said Oliver. “I didn’t expect it to be catching on so quickly in big companies in Omaha yet. I thought it was going to play out in the startups for a while before it got adopted.”
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