Tag: architecture
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Link: HSBC chief architect: Why machine learning is accelerating cloud adoption
If you build it, you own it, big data ed.: “We got some value out of that but to be honest we found it hard to keep on top of, just hard to build skills at the pace required to integrate new technologies,” Knott says. “No matter how hard we ran there is always something…
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Link: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many different things, especially for the 79 percent of organizations that plan to adopt serverless architecture but have not planned to use FaaS in the next 18 months. Oh boy. Original source: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
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Link: Think in Products, Not Projects
“In a high level, projects are local optimization efforts. We get a group of people who create new (or improve existing) functionality for our customers and then we pass that onto a team that has no idea why the change was made and how this change was solutioned/implemented. Very often, the quality is low and…
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Link: Architectural and operations minimalism
“Software that you install is software that you have to operate.” Original source: Architectural and operations minimalism
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Link: Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
“Briefly, microservices is a service-oriented software architecture in which server-side applications are constructed by combining many single-purpose, low-footprint network services. The touted benefits are improved modularity, reduced testing burden, better functional composition, environmental isolation, and development team autonomy. The opposite is a Monolithic architecture, where a large amount of functionality lives in a single service…
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Link: Containers and serverless functions – a modern architecture needs both and more
“While it’s unclear whether cost savings are the primary motivation for PaaS adoption, 62 percent of IT leaders (presumably a subset that omits developers and operations people) cite saving at least $100,000 by using PaaS instead of traditional development techniques.” Also, summary of latest CFF survey and few other vendor sponsored surveys on PaaS, containers,…
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Link: The New CIO: Leading IT the Mark Schwartz Way
“As the company decides on its objectives and turns them into a definition of business value, the CIO takes this vision and works with the teams to implement these objectives thereby connecting the team to the goal and giving constant feedback on progress. The CIO is the enterprise architect and arbitrates the quality of the…
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Link: CIOs Must Use EAs To Be Successful In Their Digital Transformations
“Developing a portfolio of architecture products to articulate the firm’s enterprise architecture. DevOps and business product managers have become very skilled in product management. However, it has been difficult to link business and technology products in a meaningful way. EAs have productized architectural components — customer journeys, value streams, and life cycles — as a…
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Link: The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So
“Windows Server 2019 is a case in point, and going through the highlights shows it. Back in the day, when a new Windows Server release came out, everyone was obsessed about its scalability and reliability and how it compared to alternatives such IBM i, a slew of Unix variants (including IBM’s own AIX), and the…
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Link: Serverless Architectures: A Paradigm Shift in …
“One of the biggest security upsides to developing on serverless architectures is that organizations don’t have to deal with the daunting task of having to constantly apply security patches for the underlying operating system. These tasks are now in the domain of the serverless architecture provider.” The rest – the application code – still needs…
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Link: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights”
Use the functioning meatware for your n-mode silos, just make sure you don’t apply the same process to each silo, if that process doesn’t work for that type of technology and approach. Original source: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights”
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Link: Serverless at Bustle
‘Probably the biggest is: how do you deal with the migration of legacy things? At Bustle we ended up mostly re-architecting our entire platform around serverless, and so that’s one option, but certainly not available to everybody. But even then, the first time we launched a serverless service, we brought down all of our Redis…
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Link: Finally, a more coherent IBM story?
‘IBM is pushing their cloud hard than ever before. Even though it is mostly IBM Cloud Private, this is the first time I heard a more consistent hybrid cloud story. They have moved away from OpenStack (completely) and CloudFoundry (for the most part) and building a good hybrid cloud story using Kubernetes. Both he product…
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Link: The History of the Service Mesh
Gotta find and manage all that middleware. Original source: The History of the Service Mesh
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Link: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall
“key in understanding the difference in monitoring — the combing of data to determine the state or well-being of a system — versus observability — the view into and understanding of the state of events within a system.” Original source: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall
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Link: Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind
Also, a long section on matching your culture to the stuff. Original source: Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind
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Link: Whither the DBA
“In every case in which a CIO or other executive has driven or authorized substantial investments in service-based database infrastructure, changes in DBA roles have followed. As two financial industry executives put it at a conference in Jersey City and re:Invent, respectively, their DBAs are all being moved to doing more generic DevOps-style roles, roles…
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Link: Thoughts….
“Vendor lock-in is not the hardest thing to overcome, Architectural lock-in is harder to overcome. If you built your new app components today optimizing for constraints of a VM, you will have a harder time moving to future than migrating an app from AWS to GCP. For example, using Kubernetes for new workloads creates an…
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Link: Microservices Beyond the Hype: What You Gain and What You Lose
Pretty good benefits/problem list, plus commentary on the “autonomy” angle. Source: Microservices Beyond the Hype: What You Gain and What You Lose
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