Agile
Agile & 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 ApplicationsDatabase 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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Cloud Design GoalsRightScale State of the Cloud Report https://www.rightscale.com/lp/state-of-the-cloud
RightScale State of the Cloud Report https://www.rightscale.com/lp/state-of-the-cloud AWS is being used by about 2/3 of respondents to handle various types of …
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Dev, Test, OptimisationAutomating the Infrastructure is a Long Term project for most if not all, Very Large Enterprises (VLEs)
The vast majority of enterprises still employ manual processes, silos, and have a lack of documentation and resources who understand automation. Many IT person…
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AWS TechnologyAWS Best Practices (Security, Deployment)
Introduction AWS has best of breed configurations and security services which firms should take advantage of. The following (13 areas), are the most important …
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MigrationUsing Docker to deploy E-Commerce/CMS
CMS Web-Site Management Content and Containerisation – Example Concept Problem statement: Deploy many websites, from a master copy, to various nodes, using an …
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SecurityPrivileged Access Management or PAM
Privileged Access Management or PAM PAM and security in general are concerned with 2 basic concepts: 1 ) Protecting my systems and data from external attack an…
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Financial Services – Overview of transforming Legacy, Containers, VMs, Cloud Native
PDF Presentation at the bottom of the page. Overview of migrating, refactoring and Containerising Applications in the Financial Industry, given different works…
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VirtualizationVMs, Containers, Middleware and migrating applications properly
Moving complex 3 Tier architectures to the Cloud (re-platforming); can be complicated, especially when you have legacy middleware to worry about. Many large fi…
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AgileWhat is Architecture and how can Agile improve Architectural Design?
A curious aspect of IT Architecture is that there is no single definition of Architecture. This causes real problems on projects. The reason is that Architectu…
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