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Thomas Barns

Thomas Barns

I'm responsible for service definition at Capacitas and help ensure consistent best practice across programmes. Over the past 14 years, I provided capacity and performance expertise to clients and helped Capacitas shift focus, complemented by automated data analysis. Regularly I speak and present on these subjects at conferences and in other forums.

Recent Posts

17th November 2023 by 
Thomas Barns

The idea of DevSecOps is to take traditional DevOps further – making software development more agile, more secure and promoting better cooperation between development and IT operations teams.

This evolving...

25th September 2023 by 
Thomas Barns

Getting things right early is always a good idea, as is reusing good designs from elsewhere. In most cloud technology organisations, the same things are done multiple times in different places, whether at an...

07th October 2020 by 
Thomas Barns

Authors: Thomas Barns & Manzoor Mohammed

Estimated read time: 2 minutes

At the heart of an SRE strategy is a desire to engineer a reliable solution 'up-front' rather than spending time on fire-fighting. However...

01st October 2020 by 
Thomas Barns

Estimated read time: 2 minutes

Scaling of eCommerce sites is relatively easy - scaling a SaaS service is much harder for the following reasons:

  • Demand is outside of your control
  • Some users have disproportionate...
28th August 2020 by 
Thomas Barns

Reviewing your cloud bill will only save you 25% of your cloud overspend. To unlock the rest of the savings you need to look deeper. Here are 2 other places you need to look to really optimise your cloud spend.