Fit for Cloud: Five things the Cape Town Cycle Tour can teach us
by Elmarie Grant, Head of Synthesis Academy It’s almost that time of year again, when thousands of hopefuls gather their bikes in the shadow of Table Mountain to complete the gruelling (and thoroughly satisfying) Cape Town Cycle Tour. Every year, a select group of Synthesis employees joins some customers to pit endurance against the mountain, and to […]
Three people-focused steps for adopting cloud at scale
By Darryl Govender, Head of Cloud Services, Synthesis Software Technology Larry Bossidy, the former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell International Inc., captured what it takes to successfully execute strategy when he said, “Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.” He emphasised the critical role […]
How AWS Well-Architected reviews help instil best practice from the ground up
By Darryl Govender One of the many questions our customers often ask us is, how do they ensure that their workloads are performant, cost effective and secure according to cloud best practices? An apt question considering that more and more customers, and partners alike, are realizing the benefits of increased speed, reduced cost and the […]
Can we Measure Happiness?
By Marais Neethling July is an important date in every Cloud evangelist’s diary as it’s the annual AWS Cape Town Summit. And this year, Synthesis displayed our most interesting and fun demo yet at our exhibition stand. Synthesis is an annual sponsor and exhibiter at the AWS Cape Town Summit. And this year was no […]
REST(ful) in peace …
We obviously all love REST, and it’s become the standard, least-surprising choice to make when building any type of service these days – be it monolithic, microservice, web, or whatever. However, a fundamental change in the way we build new systems is approaching. It’s already starting to emerge in the hyperscale enterprise space, and it’s […]
Adopting cloud at scale
Undoubtedly, cloud computing has become the new norm for any digitally enabled business. However, commonly accepted, well-documented and comprehensive strategies for cloud adoption remain lacking, with Gartner estimating that fewer than one third of enterprises have these in place. For those who do, more than 80% of enterprises surveyed as part of RightScale’s State of […]
The future of fintech is collaboration
The following excerpt comes from an interview of Michael Shapiro, Managing Director of Synthesis, by Business Day to understand why partnerships are vital for banking innovation. “Many organisations are keen to provide better origination, product distribution and customer service to their market segments,” says Synthesis’ Managing Director Michael Shapiro. “Some are keen to adopt machine learning […]
Synthesis uses their custom Kubernetes distribution Polaris for their 24-hour hackathon
Synthesis recently held its first 24-hour hackathon of 2019. The theme of this hackathon was building out tooling and ideas onto of the Synthesis custom Kubernetes distribution called Polaris. The Computer Vision team built a tool to turn scanned diagrams into vector drawings using AWS Rekognition. Then the Visual CI team built a handy tool […]
The 5 principles all successful cloud teams utilise
Make sure you are doing cloud for the right reasons Cloud can help your enterprise accelerate your time-to-market for key new products and features. It can help you unlock your mountain of big data to personalise engagements with your customers in real time. It can lower your IT cost base and streamline your application ops […]
Recent IDC report highlights enhanced business value through Amazon Web Services
Darryl Govender, Synthesis’ Head of Cloud Consulting shares his insights on the IDC’s report on Fostering business and organisational transformation to generate business value with Amazon Web Services: “Customers’ increased expectations of always-on systems strongly advocate for the use of cloud-enabled hyperscale technologies. Companies leveraging DevOps approaches on AWS, for example, are able to deliver […]