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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TOGAF and its relevance to building sound architectures
TOGAF and the Architecture ‘Continuum’ Definitions: TOGAF: The Open Group Architecture Framework Continuum: A continuous extent or succession from a starting p…
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9 key Architectural Principles that should drive Architectural Target Models and Deployment.
9 key Architectural Principles that should drive Architectural Target Models and Deployment. Architecture Principle 1: Align IS to the Business Strategy and pu…
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RightScale State of the Cloud Report https://www.rightscale.com/lp/state-of-the-cloud
RightScale State of the Cloud Report https://www.rightscale.com/lp/state-of-the-cloud AWS is being used by about 2/3 of respondents to handle various types of …
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Cloud Native Characteristics
PCF is the market leading PaaS platform and very useful if deploying on Azure and other Cloud IaaS models. Migrating, refactoring or building apps to be ‘Cloud…
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Cloud Native versus Traditional Applications
Cloud Native vs Traditional IT Most Cloud Platforms are trending towards breaking down monolithic services into ‘micro’ or discrete services. An example would …
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Key Cloud Design Goal: Redundancy, High Availability
Redundancy, Availability, Continuity, and Disaster Recovery A key benefit of virtualising the infrastructure is to construct a platform which provides best-of-…
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Phases and Categories of TOGAF and building robust Architectures
Architectures are iterative creations. They are not sequential, waterfall processes. This obviously means that iterative methodologies such as Agile-Scrum are …
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