Cloud Design Goals
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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Application TransformationWeb Services, REST, SOAP, APIs
Web systems, APIs, Microservices The web works in the following basic way: clients (web browsers) make requests to web servers, making GET requests to download…
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Cloud Design Goals9 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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AWS TechnologyMigrating to AWS (or the cloud in general): Road-map
AWS provides Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS and elastic computing resources. AWS is actually several ‘clouds’ regionally-based, named as Data Centres and …
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Database Design for High end ApplicationsOLTP, OLAP, Columnar Data Stores – overview
All VLEs (very large enterprises) will have a mix of transaction, analytical and data storage technologies. ‘Polyglot’ may refer to the variations in the datab…
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Database Design for High end ApplicationsSchema, Encoding, JSON, XML
Schema details Application developers who understand the internals of the storage engine (s) within the TOM (target operating model); are in a very good positi…
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Application TransformationJSON and XML
JSON is Like XML Both JSON and XML are “self describing” (human readable) Both JSON and XML are hierarchical (values within values) Both JSON and X…
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Database Design for High end ApplicationsDB Indexing, In-Memory Computing
Building and deploying highly available database systems involve many dimensions. There are also the considerations of indexing and clustering that this blog p…
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AgileAgile & Scrum: A comprehensive review, benefits, key success factors
Strengths and Best Practices Agile-Scrum’s strengths include adaptability, flexibility, improved team structures, and an ability to incorporate changing requir…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationWhat is DevOps?
What is DevOps? Development-Operations of IT systems and software, or ‘DevOps’, has as many definitions as practitioners. Many firms say they are employing ‘De…
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Database Design for High end ApplicationsDatabase Design for High end Applications Part 2
RDMS, NoSQL – Database Design for High end Applications – Part 2 Part 1 is here. There are many reasons why NoSQL appeared in the last decade creating what man…
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Database Design for High end Applications Part 1
Many applications today are data-intensive, not CPU intensive. Raw unlimited CPU power is rarely an architectural or application limiting phenomenon for most a…
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