Lee Atchison

Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. His most recent book, Business Breakthrough 3.0 (Executive Book Publishing), presents time-tested methodologies for achieving extraordinary business results.
In addition to being a featured host on the Software Engineering Daily podcast, Lee is the host of his own podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment.
Lee has been widely quoted in multiple technology publications, including InfoWorld, Diginomica, Cloud Native Now (formerly Container Journal), Forbes, AllBusiness, IT Brief, Programmable Web, and CIO Review, and has been a featured speaker at events across the globe.
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Highly Scalable NoSQL with Dor Laor
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Engineering Transformation at Scale with Chris Dillon
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Modern Coding Superpowers with Varun Mohan
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Database Caching with Ben Hagan
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Solving Usage-Based Pricing with Puneet Gupta
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Observability for Your Cloud Dependencies with Jeff Martens
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Cloud-native Control Planes with Bassam Tabbara
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PromptOps with Dev Nag
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Open-Source Embedding Database with Anton Troynikov
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Pricing and Packaging Orchestration with Anton Zagrebelny
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Observability Trends with John Hart
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Learning From Incidents with Nora Jones
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Dev-First Kubernetes Operations Platform with Itiel Shwartz
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API Testing in Kubernetes with Matthew LeRay
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Modern Application Observability with Berkay Mollamustafaoglu
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Cloud Native Observability with Martin Mao
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Modular Blockchain Architecture with Nader Dabit
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K8s Troubleshooting with Itiel Shwartz
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WorkOS with Michael Grinich
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