Keith O’Connell | Senior Enterprise Architect
Keith O’Connell is a Senior Enterprise Architect with more than 20 years of experience designing, developing and optimizing large scale enterprise software applications. He has successfully managed both development and delivery initiatives for a number of large scale software implementations spanning multiple vertical markets, from public-facing entertainment and e-commerce sites to internal portal and data analysis sites for large international corporations. He has a keen interest and deep expertise in Cloud Architecture and DevOps, and is always looking for ways to innovate and optimize their delivery. Keith lives in Austin, TX, with his wife, daughter and two dogs.
Keith O’Connell
Senior Enterprise Portal Architect & Delivery Manager
Keith O’Connell is a Senior Enterprise Architect with more than 20 years of experience designing, developing and optimizing large scale enterprise software applications. He has successfully managed both development and delivery initiatives for a number of large scale software implementations spanning multiple vertical markets, from public-facing entertainment and e-commerce sites to internal portal and data analysis sites for large international corporations. He has a keen interest and deep expertise in Cloud Architecture and DevOps, and is always looking for ways to innovate and optimize their delivery. Keith lives in Austin, TX, with his wife, daughter and two dogs.
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Kubernetes Best Practices, Part 1
In this article, we will discuss five Kubernetes best practices for using Kubernetes to host your enterprise workloads. This article focuses primarily on best practices for resource definitions that you deploy into a Kubernetes cluster; a subsequent article will focus... read more
Instrumenting Liferay with OpenTelemetry
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Top Ten Best Practices for Terraform Implementations
As cloud infrastructure has become more and more critical to businesses, both large and small, various tools have sprung up to help companies manage their rapidly expanding cloud footprint. One of the most essential cloud tools developed in the last ten years has been... read more
Planning Your Kubernetes Implementation
Kubernetes Implementation Planning Overview Rolling out Kubernetes in your organization requires a good amount of planning up-front to make sure that your Kubernetes initiative is well-oriented for success. Kubernetes is a highly complex system consisting of a number... read more
Kubernetes, OpenShift, and the Cloud Native Enterprise
An overview of the landscape of Kubernetes and related technologies as they move into the enterprise space.
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5 Common Gotchas with Serverless Development in the Enterprise
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Portal-ext Changes in Liferay DXP
There have been a significant number of changes to Liferay DXP’s configuration process, and one of the most significant changes has been the migration of configuration settings away from the standard portal-ext.properties file into individual configuration sets... read more
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Liferay DXP represents a massive evolutionary change in the basic nature of Liferay’s underlying platform, and as such, it presents a unique set of challenges and issues for organizations looking to migrate their old Liferay Portal environments to the latest and... read more