Cloud Design Goals
Architecting in Azure, AWS
Architecting and designing systems is not easy and much of it is dependent on platform and technology choice, along with business requirements, backup criteria…
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AWS TechnologyOverview and a plan on how to migrate to AWS
Migration to AWS Migrating to AWS is not simple and before any real technical work is done, we will need to assess and compile: Business Requirements, Business…
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Cloud Design GoalsWhat is an Enterprise Architect? Roles and Objectives.
What is an Enterprise Architect and what value do they add if any? An EA role is really concerned with helping a firm realise some form of competitive advantag…
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AWS TechnologyExample of a 3 Tier application deployment in AWS
Building a standard 3-Tier solution in AWS is not that easy. It takes some experience with the platform and related services. Importantly firms can use JSON te…
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AWS TechnologyAWS Fargate and Managed Container Costing
What is Fargate? Fargate is a serverless compute engine that lets you deploy and manage apps, APIs, and microservices without the need to manage the underlying…
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AWS TechnologyAWS ECS vs EKS, a summary of container deployments and choices to make
Containerisation is complex and involves application building, the use of Docker, a CI-CD pipeline, infrastructure, IaC and the use of Terraform with Helm or C…
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AWS VPC Networking, Security, Monitoring, layers and depth
Building a secure, layered, dependable network in AWS is not that simple. Avoiding single points of failure is necessary. Working with the right network SME is…
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AWS TechnologyAWS VPC networking overview
Networking is the basis of a cloud deployment. The networking design is essential and the first place one starts, when deploying, or migrating, onto a Cloud ho…
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Application TransformationCloud Rehosting, Replatforming, Refactoring
CLOUD REHOSTING Rehosting essentially just moves your organization’s applications to the cloud platform as-is and is often called a “lift and shift” migration.…
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AWS TechnologyAWS RDS a simple overview
AWS RDS is a managed DBaaS. Amazon RDS is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the AWS Cloud. It provides …
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AWS TechnologyOverview of SAML, STS, AD in AWS.
Overview of SAML, STS, AD in AWS. All necessary when building hybrid and integrated corporate applications and systems. Often the infrastructure, AD and access…
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Application TransformationMonoliths, good and bad
Monolithic applications are designed to handle multiple related tasks. They’re typically complex applications that encompass several tightly coupled functions.…
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