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API LifeCycle Management, a summary

API and REST standards allowed an easier exchange of data and system connectivity. This has propelled the rise of containers, and Kubernetes, in which applicat…

API Gateway and a Service Mesh: Summary of Use Cases

There is a connectivity overlap within level 7 between the API Gateway and a Service Mesh. Service Mesh’s, which are decentralized proxies running against each…

Service Mesh as an extension to API Gateway Patterns

Previous Blog on API Gateways (and APIs). A service mesh is a follow-on pattern built around API Gateway services. The focus of a service mesh is service conne…

API Gateway vs Service Meshing

API Gateways are often used to decouple consumers and producers of information. API Service Meshing can be used to decouple network management within, and betw…

Data Architecture and Data Architects; role, deliverables, purpose

Architectural Views for building Cloud Systems

From the Open Group Business Architecture views, which address the concerns of the users of the system, and describe the flows of business information between …

Big Data. Benefits. Challenges.

Most Big Data projects fail. There are many reasons for this, usually around the business reason for the project, and data quality (along with a lack of skills…

Monolith to Modularity, an example

Virtual Machines and Monoliths can be valid. It is untrue that every application must be decomposed into microservices, and containers. Decomposed microservice…

J.P. Morgan: Digital, Data Transformation and the Data Mesh

Monolithic applications may need to be decomposed in service-oriented components, to run and scale in lightweight containers. Similarly, monolithic Data archit…

AWS ECS and GitHub integration to create CI-CD pipelines

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy to operate containerized workloads at scale…

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…

Cloud Containers and Virtual Machines: Overview of use cases.

Containers and Virtual Machines both have a role within the modern Cloud architecture. Both possess some advantages and disadvantages. The graphics below summa…