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Micro transformation: Driving big business benefit through quick IT wins

CIO

But by then, the business requirements had changed, “and frankly, it doesn’t work,’’ Mahon says. So Mahon is driving digital transformation in a different direction, doing minimum viable products (MVPs), or micro transformations, which are pieces of a system that are digitized in small increments.

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CloudBank’s Journey from Mainframe to Streaming with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

At first, that was not a problem since the scenarios that made up their MVP (Minimum Viable Product) didn’t require any data consistency to be in place—they were essentially report based. The first release of Genesis was based on Apache Kafka 2.0 Confluent Cloud was the perfect balance for Genesis.

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Platform Engineering: The Next Step in Operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Can operations staff take care of complex issues like load balancing, business continuity, and failover, which the applications developers use through a set of well-designed abstractions? Can we let operations staff worry about issues like service-level agreements (SLAs) and uptime? That’s the challenge of platform engineering.