Chris Pflum

Tag: AWS

Growing Pains – Enterprise Networking in the Cloud

As enterprises scale their operations across multiple regions and countries, leveraging the global infrastructure of…

What IT Operations Can Learn from the Toyota Production System (TPS)

Earlier in my career, I was part of an internal consulting organization in JP Morgan…

DynamoDB vs DocumentDB vs MongoDB: Which should you use for your AWS hosted application?

DynamoDB vs DocumentDB vs MongoDB NoSQL databases, short for “Non-SQL” or "Not Only SQL," emerged…

Caching Strategies in AWS: From the Edge to the Core

As applications demand faster response times and better scalability, caching becomes one of the most…

Observability Tools for Amazon EKS: A Guide to Monitoring Your Kubernetes Cluster on AWS

Over the past year or so we’ve accelerated the use of containers in our environment,…

Reducing Latency in a Hybrid Cloud Environment

In today's fast-paced digital world, latency is a critical factor in ensuring the smooth functioning…

Not all Generative AI is the Same

Generative Artificial Intelligence, or Gen AI, has exploded in use these past two years. And…

Managing AWS Account Access in an Enterprise’s Cloud Platform: Challenges and Best Practices

As enterprises increasingly migrate their infrastructure to the cloud, particularly on platforms like Amazon Web…

AI Trends in Business for 2025

Over the last twelve months, I’ve worked with several projects that leverage AI tools from…

Buy versus Build

Earlier in my career, I was part of an IT organization that owned a legacy…