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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO

Agentic AI is the next leap forward beyond traditional AI to systems that are capable of handling complex, multi-step activities utilizing components called agents. He believes these agentic systems will make that possible, and he thinks 2025 will be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. They have no goal.

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Why CIOs must lead the charge on ESG – and why enterprise architecture is the key

CIO

In an era marked by heightened environmental, social and governance (ESG) scrutiny and rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, the integration of actionable sustainable principles in enterprise architecture (EA) is indispensable. For those working within or alongside EA, these concepts are well-established pillars of the discipline.

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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024).

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Building Resilient Software Systems: The Power of Clean Architecture

DevOps.com

Clean architecture is a software design philosophy that prioritizes the separation of concerns within a software system. Its primary aim is to develop systems that are simple to comprehend, maintain and extend.

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Building Evolvable Architectures

Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks

It’s no surprise many CIOs and CTOs are struggling to adapt, in part because their architecture isn’t equipped to evolve. This webinar will discuss what’s at stake if companies continue to use long term architecture plans. How to address technical debt and retrofit existing systems to support better evolution.

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Determining the best architecture for your CX platform

CIO

Without the right cloud architecture, enterprises can be crushed under a mass of operational disruption that impedes their digital transformation. What’s getting in the way of transformation journeys for enterprises? Imagine not only being able to preserve existing systems but using them to lever digital transformation.

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Transitional Architecture

Martin Fowler

During displacement the legacy and new system will have to operate simultaneously allowing behavior to be split between old and new. Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis explain how to build and evolve a Transitional Architecture that supports this collaboration as it changes over time.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

Many do this by simply replicating their current architectures in the cloud. Those previous architectures, which were optimized for transactional systems, aren't well-suited for the new age of AI. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Take advantage of serverless application architecture.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

In this paper, we explore the top considerations for building a cloud data lake including architectural principles, when to use cloud data lake engines and how to empower non-technical users. Read this paper to learn about: The value of cloud data lakes as the new system of record.

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. In fact, the impact of software architecture parallels the impact of organizational structure. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems. Containers power many of the applications we use every day.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Understand a distributed system and improve communication among teams. Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity.