Monolithic applications may need to be decomposed in service-oriented components, to run and scale in lightweight containers. Similarly, monolithic Data archit…
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy to operate containerized workloads at scale…
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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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Containers and Virtual Machines both have a role within the modern Cloud architecture. Both possess some advantages and disadvantages. The graphics below summa…
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Most firms have issues with understanding their IT assets across environments. Many have more than 1 database of asset and configuration information; quite a f…
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Using Agile within Cloud deployments can fail for the following key reasons: Culture of the firm is not democratized and does not allow for experimentation, fa…
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Waterfall theologies are directly responsible for the failure of ~70% of IT projects of any size and variety. Forrester estimates that 68% of projects fail due…
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What is Agile? About 70% of projects fail. Most of these – a vast majority – still use the Waterfall methodology. Waterfall is completely unsuited to building …
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‘Transformation’ is a buzzword. You need to understand what it means, and properly define and parameterise the concept of ‘Transformation’.
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10 key Architectural Principles that should drive Architectural Target Models and Deployment. 10 key Architectural Principles that should drive Architectural T…
Read More »10 key Architectural Principles that should drive Architectural Target Models and Deployment. Architecture Principle 1: Use Agile methods to Align IS to the Bu…
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Database design for high end applications Many applications today are data-intensive, not CPU intensive. Raw unlimited CPU power is rarely an architectural or …
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