Cloud Native Architectures

Cloud vendor managed service offerings

Undifferentiated heavy lifting is often used to describe when time, effort, resources, or money are deployed to perform tasks that will not add to the bottom line of a company. Undifferentiated simply means that there is nothing to distinguish the activity from the way others do it. Heavy lifting refers to the difficult task of technology innovation and operations which, if done correctly, nobody ever recognizes, and if done wrong, can cause catastrophic consequences to business operations. These phrases combined mean that when a company does difficult tasks—that if done wrong will cause business impact, but that company doesn't have a core competency to distinguish itself in doing these tasks—it not ...