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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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But if you do your planning exercise properly, you shouldn’t have to move your applications around,” he says. that make migration to another platform difficult due to the complexity of recreating all of that on a new platform. Architectural lock-in is when the application relies on multiple managed services from the cloud provider.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 9, 2025

Its essential for admins to periodically review these metrics to understand how users are engaging with Amazon Q Business and identify potential areas of improvement. We begin with an overview of the available metrics and how they can be used for measuring user engagement and system effectiveness.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now. But it’s not the only one. In addition to cloud consumption, there may be drivers at play.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Research from IBM found that 93 percent of companies still use mainframes for financial management, 73 percent for customer transaction systems, and more than 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies run business-critical applications on mainframes.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 1, 2025

App Studio customers, including both enterprises and system integrators, have shared the need for portability and reusability across App Studio instances. Optional: Review App Studio concepts to familiarize yourself with important App Studio concepts. Application security and control are maintained through a robust permissions system.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Low Jin Phang, President, Digital Systems, ST Engineering ST Engineering “Thriving in today’s volatile business climate means having to take a measured and balanced approach to implementing digital strategies, while keeping an inquisitive and nimble attitude to embrace innovations.

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Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2023

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The data engineer is also expected to create agile data architectures that evolve as new trends emerge. The audience is very broad when described that way.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2024

Difficulty in maintaining consistent security controls and configurations: Security tool sprawl makes integrations challenging, and without effective integration, information sharing among systems can fail. This is where it pays to use the recommendations that resulted from the security tool rationalization exercise.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

To gain that insight he monitors ongoing usage and meets weekly or biweekly with internal business leaders — and with Microsoft, the city’s primary cloud service provider, to review current and future needs. The solution lies in making those teams understand they’re getting involved in innovation, not just a cost-cutting exercise.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

Model Variants The current DeepSeek model collection consists of the following models: DeepSeek-V3 An LLM that uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. These models retain their existing architecture while gaining additional reasoning capabilities through a distillation process. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

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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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Accenture

APRIL 10, 2019

Microservices architecture has become popular over the last several years. To achieve high quality, exercise “technical excellence” when developing software: unit testing, TDD, BDD, etc. When it comes to data consistency, microservices architecture favors eventual consistency. Not adjusting testing approaches.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

The Defense Science Board Report of January 2013 on the resilience of DoD systems to cyber attack. Read on for more about what the DSB reported as the threat to military systems. It is also available at: Resilient Military Systems and the Advanced Cyber Threat. Here are more details: .

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring. He also stresses that, because technology is not one-size-fits-all, CTOs must be experienced with technical architecture. Why is this important?

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While I expected this exercise to confirm that consolidation is real, I was pleasantly surprised with the degree to which the CIO Tech Talk Community confirmed it – and how they are taking steps to realign their procurement and vendor management strategies. Of course, some startups will also shutdown.

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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. Prior to becoming chairman of IDT, Mr. Tan was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Circuit Systems from June 1999 to September 2005.

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James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. TDD is difficult to add to legacy codebases. Why TDD Works.

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CircleCI

MAY 24, 2021

This approach is natural for most applications or systems developed using a monolithic architecture. As microservices architecture becomes more popular, teams tend to split their code into many repositories (the so-called polyrepos). System knowledge is spread across multiple repos maintained by different teams.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

Not only does this eliminate the opportunity for back-and-forth chatbot conversations to rack up token costs, but it also removes any possibility for users to abuse the system. Not just as a paper exercise, but with a small percentage of users in production,” he says. The key is to take a disciplined approach to modeling the costs.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JULY 3, 2024

The use cases can range from medical information extraction and clinical notes summarization to marketing content generation and medical-legal review automation (MLR process). The system is built upon Amazon Bedrock and leverages LLM capabilities to generate curated medical content for disease awareness.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 4, 2019

Reinforcement Learning: Building Recommender Systems , August 16. Advanced Test-Driven Development (TDD) , June 27. Systems engineering and operations. How Routers Really Work: Network Operating Systems and Packet Switching , June 21. Azure Architecture: Best Practices , June 28. Blockchain.

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Serendipity Systems: Architecting Personalization Systems at Scale Neerav Vyas 4 November 2022. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Personalization systems are all about the right advice at the right time. Welcome to serendipity systems, and the way next generation personalization engines aim to consistently deliver it.

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Apiumhub

JULY 23, 2019

As you may already know, Apiumhub team is software architecture-oriented and reads books for software architects on a weekly basis. This year Apiumhub organizes Global Software Architecture Summit 10th of october, which will take place in Barcelona. “ Essential Software Architecture ” by Ian Gorton.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The most recent Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report contains the high-level results of a red team exercise performed against a SaaS customer’s continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline. In the red team exercise, our researchers showed they could compromise the customer’s CI/CD pipeline – but what exactly does that mean?

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Tenable

MAY 2, 2025

Check out best practices, recommendations and insights on protecting your cloud environments, OT systems, software development processes and more. In this special edition of the Cybersecurity Snapshot, were highlighting some of the most valuable guidance offered by the U.S.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

DECEMBER 11, 2021

This article is the second in a four-part series on writing performance reviews. In this article, I talk about filling out the review form. The final post covers delivering the review. Before you begin to write your review, make sure you have the role and level definition for the person’s current role and level.

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Mobilunity

MAY 2, 2025

Typically, cloud cost deviations occur when actual spending exceeds the planned budget due to misconfigurations, unanticipated spikes in usage, or external circumstances such as provider pricing changes or regional outages. Regular configuration reviews and automated checks can help detect and resolve these issues.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Part of the reason is enterprises tend to run underutilized or idle servers—the Uptime Institute estimates that roughly 20% of enterprise servers are completed unused or abandoned due to insufficient infrastructure monitoring and the lack of a rigorous decommissioning process. times more energy efficient than the average U.S.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 6, 2020

Running in a loop automatically where you make a change, you hit save and you get that TDD red, green, refactor cycle going. So, I put some feature toggles into the system - just the ability to ship code into production and then see how it behaved in production built confidence. And if so, how?

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2022

It proved why this exercise was such a great idea. Actions, systems, policies, information, actors… It was all in there and we started to shape the process using these new insights. Our challenge was to model one particular system that was part of the process we defined during the EventStorm. It’s about listening. I’m not alone!

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2022

It proved why this exercise was such a great idea. Actions, systems, policies, information, actors… It was all in there and we started to shape the process using these new insights. Our challenge was to model one particular system that was part of the process we defined during the EventStorm. It’s about listening. I’m not alone!

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 28, 2024

With the advancements being made with LLMs like the Mixtral-8x7B Instruct , derivative of architectures such as the mixture of experts (MoE) , customers are continuously looking for ways to improve the performance and accuracy of generative AI applications while allowing them to effectively use a wider range of closed and open source models.

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The Citus Data

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This allows for faster crash recovery on systems with many database files. We review new PostgreSQL features. In our architecture, the control plane is responsible for the business logic for managing Postgres/Citus databases. Figure 3: Hyperscale (Citus) architecture diagram that shows control plane and data plane.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 19, 2021

ML apps need to be developed through cycles of experimentation: due to the constant exposure to data, we don’t learn the behavior of ML apps through logical reasoning but through empirical observation. but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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