Architecture and Examples

The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For example, there should be a clear, consistent procedure for monitoring and retraining models once they are running (this connects with the People element mentioned above). To succeed, Operational AI requires a modern data architecture.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They tested the prompts, modified them to give better examples, changed the wording of what was being asked from the LLM and kept testing. Eight different prompts were created that were tailored to the specific output data each agent was charged with generating.

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Linking Modular Architecture to Development Teams

Martin Fowler

JUNE 13, 2023

Matthew Foster describes an example of this from his work with clients, and how using Domain-Driven Design and Team Topologies helped create a modular architecture that substantially reduced the time needed to deliver new features.

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Are enterprises ready to adopt AI at scale?

CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

To overcome those challenges and successfully scale AI enterprise-wide, organizations must create a modern data architecture leveraging a mix of technologies, capabilities, and approaches including data lakehouses, data fabric, and data mesh. Another challenge here stems from the existing architecture within these organizations.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

In this webinar, learn how Enel Group worked with Agile Lab to implement Dremio as a data mesh solution for providing broad access to a unified view of their data, and how they use that architecture to enable a multitude of use cases.

Architecture

Making Zero Trust Architecture Achievable

Tenable

DECEMBER 5, 2024

4, NIST released the draft Guidance for Implementing Zero Trust Architecture for public comment. Tenable has been proud to work alongside the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) to launch the Zero Trust Architecture Demonstration Project.

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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Unfortunately, despite hard-earned lessons around what works and what doesn’t, pressure-tested reference architectures for gen AI — what IT executives want most — remain few and far between, she said. I cannot say I have abundant examples like this.” “What’s Next for GenAI in Business” panel at last week’s Big.AI@MIT

Airlines

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Enter the next phase of Industry 4.0 with edge AI

CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Generally speaking, a healthy application and data architecture is at the heart of successful modernisation. For example, IBM has developed hundreds of tools and approaches (or “journeys”) over the last 25 years which facilitate the modernisation process in organisations and meet a broad range of requirements.

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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. For example, one of the largest energy companies in the world has embraced TOGAF — to a point.

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Reimagine application modernisation with the power of generative AI

CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

By leveraging large language models and platforms like Azure Open AI, for example, organisations can transform outdated code into modern, customised frameworks that support advanced features. NTT DATAs Coding with Azure OpenAI is a prime example of just such a solution. The foundation of the solution is also important.

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Why GreenOps will succeed where FinOps is failing

CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The result was a compromised availability architecture. For example, the database team we worked with in an organization new to the cloud launched all the AWS RDS database servers from dev through production, incurring a $600K a month cloud bill nine months before the scheduled production launch.

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How to talk to your board about tech debt

CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For example: Direct costs (principal): “We’re spending 30% more on maintaining outdated systems than our competitors.” Suboptimal integration strategies are partly to blame, and on top of this, companies often don’t have security architecture that can handle both people and AI agents working on IT systems.

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A strategic approach to legacy platform modernization: Minimizing risk while maximizing value

CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

For example, a business that depends on the SAP platform could move older, on-prem SAP applications to modern HANA-based Cloud ERP and migrate other integrated applications to SAP RISE (a platform that provides access to most core AI-enabled SAP solutions via a fully managed cloud hosting architecture).

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Security is dead: Long live risk management

CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Just as building codes are consulted before architectural plans are drawn, security requirements must be established early in the development process. Security in design review Conversation starter : How do we identify and address security risks in our architecture? The how: Building secure digital products 1.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system. For example, some clients explore alternative funding models such as opex through cloud services (rather than traditional capital expensing), which spread costs over time.

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, my change management motto is, “Humans prefer the familiar to the comfortable and the comfortable to the better.” Which are not longer an architectural fit? For example, a legacy, expensive, and difficult-to-support system runs on proprietary hardware that runs a proprietary operating system, database, and application.

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United Airlines sets its flight plan for gen AI success

CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With the core architectural backbone of the airlines gen AI roadmap in place, including United Data Hub and an AI and ML platform dubbed Mars, Birnbaum has released a handful of models into production use for employees and customers alike. CIO Jason Birnbaum has ambitious plans for generative AI at United Airlines.

Airlines

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Enter the next phase of Industry 4.0 with edge AI

CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Generally speaking, a healthy application and data architecture is at the heart of successful modernisation. For example, IBM has developed hundreds of tools and approaches (or journeys) over the last 25 years which facilitate the modernisation process in organisations and meet a broad range of requirements.

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A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

CIOs must take an active role in educating their C-suite counterparts about the strategic applications of technologies like, for example, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, and cloud computing. Now, he focuses on strategic business technology strategy through architectural excellence.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Hes seeing the need for professionals who can not only navigate the technology itself, but also manage increasing complexities around its surrounding architectures, data sets, infrastructure, applications, and overall security. For example, Boston Scientific and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota have turned to the University of St.

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Your IT infrastructure may be more outdated than you think

CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For example, a company could have a best-in-class mainframe system running legacy applications that are homegrown and outdated, he adds. In the banking industry, for example, fintechs are constantly innovating and changing the rules of the game, he says. No one wants to be Blockbuster when Netflix is on the horizon, he says.

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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

AI is impacting everything from writing requirements, acceptance definition, design and architecture, development, releasing, and securing,” Malagodi says. Maintaining network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls by hand are examples.”

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AI in action: Stories of how enterprises are transforming and modernizing

CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

Accelerating modernization As an example of this transformative potential, EXL demonstrated Code Harbor , its generative AI (genAI)-powered code migration tool. And its modular architecture distributes tasks across multiple agents in parallel, increasing the speed and scalability of migrations. Its a driver of transformation.

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

For example, organizations that build an AI solution using Open AI need to consider more than the AI service. For example, Mosaic recently created a data-heavy Mosaic GPT safety model for mining operations on Microsofts Bing platform, and is about to roll that out in a pilot. Adding vaults is needed to secure secrets.

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The Importance of Assessing Interpersonal Skills in Recruitment

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Below are some of the key challenges, with examples to illustrate their real-world implications: 1. Example: During an interview, a candidate may confidently explain their role in resolving a team conflict. Example: A candidate may claim to have excellent teamwork skills but might have been the sole decision-maker in previous roles.

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The targeted approach to cloud and data CIOs need for ROI gains

CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Our digital transformation has coincided with the strengthening of the B2C online sales activity and, from an architectural point of view, with a strong migration to the cloud,” says Vibram global DTC director Alessandro Pacetti. For example, IT builds an application that allows you to sell a company service or product.

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Building Resilient Public Networking on AWS: Part 4

Xebia

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Architecture Overview The accompanying diagram visually represents our infrastructure’s architecture, highlighting the relationships between key components. But to keep this example as simple as possible, we will use a built-in feature of AWS Global Accelerator that routes traffic to the healthy endpoints. subdomain-1.cloudns.ph",

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Is SaaS dead? Not quite, but it’s evolving rapidly

CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For example, were seeing specialized SaaS solutions for healthcare, finance, real estate, and manufacturing, among others. Composable architecture offers a middle ground between rigid, one-size-fits-all SaaS platforms and fully custom-built solutions. The key advantage of composable solutions is flexibility.

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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, employees might inadvertently broadcast corporate secrets by inputting sensitive company information or source code into public-facing AI models and chatbots. And with powerful AI techniques that extract deep details from stolen datasets, even small data losses can have seismic impacts.

Enterprise

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Generative AI: Eight fundamental security risks and considerations

CIO

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Zscaler is protecting enterprises from Gen AI Threats While Generative AI offers transformative potential, it also brings fundamental security risks that must be addressed to ensure safety and reliability in its application.

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You still don’t need a feature store

Xebia

MARCH 13, 2025

You may, for example, want to know what values it can take. Please have a look at this blog post on machine learning serving architectures if you do not know the difference. In this example you serve the model online. Below diagram shows an example where multiple services consume a model.

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Intel under Tan: What enterprise IT buyers need to know

CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

For enterprise IT leaders, Tans strategy will determine whether x86 remains a reliable investment or if alternative architectures gain ground. Chinas promotion of RISC-V as an alternative architecture also adds to the competitive pressure on x86. Gaudi, as an example, is not a GPU, said Paquet.

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Leading the digital charge: Inspiring innovation and fostering a culture of excellence

CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Examples abound of impossible projects made successful due to the unwavering commitment of the leaders and the team spirit that they brought in. Activities and endeavors that promote a culture of excellence should not only be rewarded but also be implanted as a standard practice for the team.

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AI factories: Is this the ‘secret success’ that unleashes innovation?

CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

This will, for example, mean chatbots that dont just answer a customers question, but add value by interacting with other systems and data sources to make informed recommendations. But keeping a full stack strategy in mind, Hubbard explained, ensures that your underlying architecture can scale as your projects grow.

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Creating asynchronous AI agents with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

This post will discuss agentic AI driven architecture and ways of implementing. Agentic AI architecture Agentic AI architecture is a shift in process automation through autonomous agents towards the capabilities of AI, with the purpose of imitating cognitive abilities and enhancing the actions of traditional autonomous agents.

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Goodbye digital transformation, hello AI-first business transformation

CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They were new products, interfaces, and architectures to do the same thing we always did. A new generation of digital-first companies emerged that reimagined operations, enterprise architecture, and work for what was becoming a digital-first world. Data and workflows lived, and still live, disparately within each domain.

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Integrate foundation models into your code with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Throughout this post, we provide detailed code examples and explanations for each step, helping you seamlessly integrate Amazon Bedrock FMs into your code base. We walk through a Python example in this post. For this example, we use a Jupyter notebook (Kernel: Python 3.12.0). In your IDE, create a new file.

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Technology Trends for 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 14, 2025

Well no longer have to say explain it to me as if I were five years old or provide several examples of how to solve a problem step-by-step. Interest in Data Lake architectures rose 59%, while the much older Data Warehouse held steady, with a 0.3% Usage of material about Software Architecture rose 5.5% Finally, ETL grew 102%.

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Create a generative AI–powered custom Google Chat application using Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 31, 2024

By implementing this architectural pattern, organizations that use Google Workspace can empower their workforce to access groundbreaking AI solutions powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and make informed decisions without leaving their collaboration tool. In the following sections, we explain how to deploy this architecture.

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3 promises every CIO should keep in 2025

CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

For example, most people now use AI to take meeting notes. According to Leon Roberge, CIO for Toshiba America Business Solutions and Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, technology leaders should become more visible to the business and lead by example to their teams. Each company has its own way of doing business and its own data sets.

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Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious of any kind of general law in the field. Good software architecture is very context-specific, analyzing trade-offs that resolve differently across a wide range of environments. We often see how inattention to the law can twist system architectures.

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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Build a video insights and summarization engine using generative AI with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 29, 2024

We walk through the key components and services needed to build the end-to-end architecture, offering example code snippets and explanations for each critical element that help achieve the core functionality. Solution overview The following diagram illustrates the pipeline for the video insights and summarization engine.

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The future of Cloud-native software development with Radius

Xebia

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Initially, our industry relied on monolithic architectures, where the entire application was a single, simple, cohesive unit. Ever increasing complexity To overcome these limitations, we transitioned to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). On top of that, a single bug in the software could take down an entire system.

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The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

Webinars

Trending Sources

Linking Modular Architecture to Development Teams

Webinars

Are enterprises ready to adopt AI at scale?

Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Making Zero Trust Architecture Achievable

CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

Enter the next phase of Industry 4.0 with edge AI

Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

Reimagine application modernisation with the power of generative AI

Why GreenOps will succeed where FinOps is failing

How to talk to your board about tech debt

A strategic approach to legacy platform modernization: Minimizing risk while maximizing value

Security is dead: Long live risk management

Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

United Airlines sets its flight plan for gen AI success

Enter the next phase of Industry 4.0 with edge AI

A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

Your IT infrastructure may be more outdated than you think

5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

AI in action: Stories of how enterprises are transforming and modernizing

CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

The Importance of Assessing Interpersonal Skills in Recruitment

The targeted approach to cloud and data CIOs need for ROI gains

Building Resilient Public Networking on AWS: Part 4

Is SaaS dead? Not quite, but it’s evolving rapidly

AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

Generative AI: Eight fundamental security risks and considerations

You still don’t need a feature store

Intel under Tan: What enterprise IT buyers need to know

Leading the digital charge: Inspiring innovation and fostering a culture of excellence

AI factories: Is this the ‘secret success’ that unleashes innovation?

Creating asynchronous AI agents with Amazon Bedrock

Goodbye digital transformation, hello AI-first business transformation

Integrate foundation models into your code with Amazon Bedrock

Technology Trends for 2025

Create a generative AI–powered custom Google Chat application using Amazon Bedrock

3 promises every CIO should keep in 2025

Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

Build a video insights and summarization engine using generative AI with Amazon Bedrock

The future of Cloud-native software development with Radius

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