IaC Books and Summer reading
Infrastructure as code (IaC), attempts to codify the underlying deployment infrastructure. There are 2 broad categories: continuous deployment, or continuous d…
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Defining Principles for Architects based on TOGAF
Defining Principles for Architects based on TOGAF IT Principle Architects and their role in building and aligning IS architectures (Source Link). Redacted and …
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Cloud Centre of Excellence
Build one per Cloud platform For Very Large Enterprises, it is unlikely that you will succeed at Cloud, without a centralised method, set of processes, standar…
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Overview of SaaS
Software as a service Software as a service (SaaS) involves hosting the software remotely and providing access to it over the Internet. Software is deployed on…
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Client-server Distributed Computing: a summary of Architecture patterns
Client-server Distributed Computing Distributed systems that are accessed over the Internet are normally organized as client-server systems. In a client-server…
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Distributed Software Engineering Overview
Reference: Sommerville, Software Engineering, 10 ed., Chapter 17 High Level View Virtually all large computer-based systems are now distributed systems. A dist…
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SDLC Summary
The following table outlines the key steps in the Software Development Lifecyle (SDLC). Table: SDLC Category Description Supporting Workflows Relevancy to a pr…
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Boehm Validation model in Software Engineering
Boehm stated that validation was to ask if we are building the ‘right product’? Architecturally based software engineering activities support validation by map…
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Example of a failed Micro-Services project and why Monoliths are valid
An excellent article on the perils of moving to Micro-services from a failed real world project is here. It is simply a myth that ‘all firms’, and ‘all project…
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