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Sustainable change requires architecture of technology and organization

Xebia

The dynamics between technology and people we call socio-technical systems. It’s about the technical, social and cognitive aspects of an organization and system. Designing a socio-technical system means you explicitly thinking about the interrelation of these three aspects. So, socio-technical systems?

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Model-based Systems Design

The Programmer's Paradox

Be very careful about naming and definitions. Anyone involved in running, using or administrating a system is a user, and not all users are end-users. These groups draw architectural lines within the system. The collection of these requirements will dictate the hardware, the architecture and any dependant technologies.

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A CTO’s Guide To The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013

CTOvision

Wearables were a definite hot topic in 2013 and this will continue. In Memory Computing: This is a new architecture approach that is being leveraged to modernize old systems and design new systems that perform at incredible capacity. 2013 saw many government technology professionals begin to examine this construct.

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What is COBIT? A framework for alignment and governance

CIO

Another major update is that COBIT 2019 outlines specific design factors that should influence the development of any enterprise governance systems, along with a governance system design workflow tool kit for organizations to follow.

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High-performance computing on AWS

Xebia

Job Definitions AWS Batch job definitions specify how jobs are to be run. Each job references a job definition. By decoupling tasks and providing a set of servers (up to hundred hosts) the architecture can provide a terabyte-per-second scale consumed by thousands of hosts.

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Why Microservice Architecture Is More Than A Fad

taos

The web gave birth to the three-tier architecture. There have been many software design patterns proclaimed to be The Best™ over the years, each one has evolved or been supplanted by the next. And now we have the so-called fad that is Microservice Architecture. Let’s explore these.

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The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly

CloudScaling

It’s important to me to provide an accurate history, definition, and proper usage of the Pets vs Cattle meme so that everyone can understand why it was successful and how it’s still vital as a tool for driving understanding of cloud. His focus was about “scale-up” vs. “scale-out” architectures generally.

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