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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…

Configuration Management Database and single sources of asset ‘truth’

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…

Key reasons why Agile for Cloud deployments may fail

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…

Why Agile is Superior to the Bureaucratic Mess called ‘Waterfall’

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…

Agile in reality

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 …