CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Businesses will increasingly implement zero-trust architectures, focusing on strict identity verification and minimizing access to sensitive systems. To mitigate risks, organizations must adopt zero-trust architectures, invest in advanced cybersecurity solutions, and foster a culture of security awareness.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Leverage in SaaS architecture, like financing leverage from the capital markets, only works when you have a plan to keep the learned improvements delivering value. Done right, it’s an exercise in customer discovery: technical debt allows for faster exposure of opportunities. and onboarding new customers.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He is an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially at the intersection of agile engineering techniques and software architecture. What Software Architecture Metrics do you normally use? However, this is truer than most of the times this answer appears in software architecture trade-offs.

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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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CIO

JUNE 27, 2024

It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative. Others abide by the terms of the license but imply that those exercising rights under the license will lose future access.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

The process would start with an overhaul of large on-premises or on-cloud applications and platforms, focused on migrating everything to the latest tech architecture. Only then, could those data points be converted into a unified view of the customer, albeit one that would be out-of-date the moment a new interaction occurred.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

According to Serna, the answer lies in the fact that Finix has built “an open system and open architecture that is modular and configurable.” Stripe, on the other hand, he said, “continues to double down on that vendor lock in so it can continue to close their system and architecture.”. “We

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Max reHIT Workout is an exercise app that guides you through interval workouts. I'll just say I’m proud of how it turned out and if you want an optimal algorithm for exercising, you might like it. That's because there’s been very little evolution in software system architecture. I won’t pitch the app here.

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Gorilla Logic

JUNE 24, 2021

You may have been surprised to see the word “exercise” in the same headline as the words “ software developer.” But exercise is not just about looking better physically. Here is a list of several cognitive benefits of regular exercise, and why they are important for software developers: 1.

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2023

A big part of preparing data to be shared is an exercise in data normalization, says Juan Orlandini, chief architect and distinguished engineer at Insight Enterprises. Data formats and data architectures are often inconsistent, and data might even be incomplete. Most organizations don’t end up with data lakes, says Orlandini.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 17, 2020

Evolutionary architecture is something every software architect thinks about. To support this evolution, fitness functions can help in finding how well a system meets specified architecture goals and constraints in an automated way. And today’s post is about architectural fitness functions. . Atomic vs Holistic .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

I was twenty years ahead of my time or [maybe] fifteen years, and so it was an exercise in frustration waiting for the technology to actually commercialize,” Ross said. Ross noted that he doesn’t really see the company as a competitor, since WeLink’s bandwidth is significantly higher and more reliable given its 5G mesh architecture.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. However, if nobody reads the documentation and it gets out of date quickly, it’s a tick-box exercise rather than a value creating one. In my experience as a consultant, EAs are not having the impact they should. Enterprise Architects are smart people.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It’s about making sure there are regular test exercises that ensure that the data backup is going to be useful if worse comes to worst.”. Adopting a cybersecurity architecture that embraces modern constructs such as zero trust and that incorporates agile concepts such as continuous improvement is another requisite.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’ve been thinking about Agile architecture recently, since a seasoned consultant friend (Payson Hall of Catalysis, Inc.) Agile architecture does not mean no overview and no planning – although it does offer significant advantages over traditional approaches in many situations, including the one you describe.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Everything from ‘my computer won’t turn on’ and ‘can you fix this’ type workplace and service desk, to engineering, the building and running systems that power the bank, the branch tech, ATMs, tellers, call centers, the infrastructure and architecture, cyber incident management and the NOC. Basically, the whole lot.

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CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Learn security impact by the exercises described to understand what the new tech does with your public data and test the safeguards it purports. Leverage this knowledge in your architecture and designs. It’s time to publish architectural patterns, best practices and promote sensible adoption. Again: Start small.

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Henrik Warne

JUNE 19, 2022

Instead, it is a tool to highlight which parts of the code have not been exercised, in order to analyze why that is. Modified condition/decisions coverage (MC/DC) exercises each condition so that it, independently of all the other conditions, affects the outcome of the entire decision. The goal here is not to reach 100% test coverage.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2023

Because value streams often reflect the as-is business architecture, they tend to be divorced from the technical architecture they rely on. This results in value streams that have interdependencies on other value streams. But who is the owner of this prioritization? Unfortunately, there is no clear answer.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But if you do your planning exercise properly, you shouldn’t have to move your applications around,” he says. Architectural lock-in is when the application relies on multiple managed services from the cloud provider. One big reason: they’re often locked into their chosen provider’s ecosystem. So plan for that in advance, adds Holcombe.

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Tenable

JANUARY 15, 2025

Implementing a zero trust architecture, on the other hand, is complex because it involves addressing a unique mix of process, procedure, technology and user education. Draft guidance on implementing a zero trust architecture, released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Dec.

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CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2022

There is general consensus that in the short term I&O professionals need to impose order on chaos with the longer-term objective of structuring a catalogue of services featuring pre-vetted architectures establishing technology choice guardrails that guide and provide agility to the business.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Lakehouse architecture supports data-driven decisions Printing and digital imaging company Lexmark “has been on a journey to become a data-driven company for the last five to seven years, given we realized that data is the new ‘gold,’” says Vishal Gupta, global CTO and CIO and senior vice president of connected technology at Lexmark.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2023

A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. Poor planning Enterprises risk running into trouble if they lack a detailed cloud strategy. “A

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Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2023

The data engineer is also expected to create agile data architectures that evolve as new trends emerge. Building architectures that optimize performance and cost at a high level is no longer enough. They must understand both data access and security, exercising the principle of least privilege.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He also stresses that, because technology is not one-size-fits-all, CTOs must be experienced with technical architecture. A CTO will help make decisions on the choice of technology adoption, infrastructure, and development architecture,” Athawale says. Why is this important?

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

I’ve just created a new kata which you and your team/friends can use to practice your architecture and domain-driven design skills. All architecture decisions are ultimately driven by a company’s business model, so I think this is a sensible starting point. Is each domain core, supporting, or generic?

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

How often do teams schedule tabletop exercises to play out what-if scenarios? Too much urgency and stress can drive teams to select suboptimal partners, make costly architectural mistakes, or underinvest in scalability, quality, or security.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

So it is a pytest plugin that helps you define (architectural) rules (archon means ruler, but it also sounds a bit like the arch in architecture ) for your application. Architecture rules are defined in simple Pytest test cases and can run as part of a CI/CD pipeline. Hence, minimal effort is put into architecture.

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Xebia

MAY 8, 2024

In this rest of this blogpost I will share with you: Why rhyming in ABBA schema is an interesting task What the results were of my analysis What lessons I learned from going through this exercise Why is rhyming in ABBA schema an interesting task? Especially when combined with the auto-regressive architecture of most LLMs.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 5, 2025

These assistants can be powered by various backend architectures including Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic workflows, fine-tuned large language models (LLMs), or a combination of these techniques. Generative AI question-answering applications are pushing the boundaries of enterprise productivity.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a result, many organizations are grappling to manage and protect a complex web of IT architecture that spans on-premises, hybrid and multi-clouds, and edge environments. Downtime is not an option, so the framework should address training, simulation exercises, automation of policies, and threat investigation capabilities.

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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

When we tell patients to eat healthier and exercise more to avoid heart failure, they don’t always follow that advice. Once we set up a data architecture that provides data liquidity, where data can go everywhere, we had to teach people how to use it. Governance is essential, as much as architecture and training the workforce.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2024

This is where it pays to use the recommendations that resulted from the security tool rationalization exercise. Every tool should go through an architectural review and pass through a central authority, and rationalization assessments should be conducted periodically to keep things in check. Others hire an outside specialist.

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Perficient

APRIL 7, 2025

How Metadata Contention Can Slow Down User Queries When data ingestion and transformation pipelines rely on structural metadata changes, they introduce several stress points across Unity Catalogs architecture. This is just a good exercise to go through with your jobs. You get schema evolution with MERGE INTO and COPY INTO.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2025

A product manager who is not knowledgeable in the domain cannot exercise the one decision right a product manager is required to exercise: prioritization. The more AI tools are used to produce something - requirements, technical architecture, code, tests - the more important the human evaluation of that output becomes.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A sovereign cloud is essentially a cloud computing architecture for a suite of digital services built specifically around a common set of national or multinational standards. To stay updated on the news about the transaction, click here.

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