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Gerben Wierda It is time for another one in the “What’s wrong with this picture?” series. This time, I might maybe better have called it “What is not wrong with this picture?”. Here is the story. A company I know has started … Continue reading →
Chess and the Art of Enterprise is now also available as PDF for those who like to read it on a device instead of on paper. This version looks exactly like the paper version (which means: more elegant than the iBook). … Continue reading →
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture is also available as an iBook. The price depends on where you are, as iBooks prices are inclusive of tax. However, the book has been priced at roughly two thirds of the paperback … Continue reading →
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few … Continue reading →
I came across the following post on LinkedIn Pulse: The 5 Resource Bottle Necks In Big Data, Including The Intangible 5th. I think this post is important for all the programmers, software designers and architects that are so infatuated with battling … Continue reading →
http://masteringarchimate.com has passed the 200,000 view mark during my vacation. I started this blog in 2011. In June 2014 it passed the 100,000 view mark. It took 14 months to get the next 100,000 views. That is a milestone I wanted … Continue reading →
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As the shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a … Continue reading →
A short one today. I have a view taken from a certain book. The view contains an error, can you spot it? And when you have spotted it, go to the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification and can you tell me what … Continue reading →
Just a short mention here: I’ve just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a scenario … Continue reading →
Just a short mention here: I’ve just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a … Continue reading →
Suppose you are in a meeting. You, the Enterprise Architect of the EA Chess kind. You are aware of many complexities, uncertainties, hair-ball like integrations and other ‘technical debt’ in your landscape, and you don’t have the habit of underestimating … Continue reading →
In the previous post, Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns, I discussed the creation of reusable patterns to more effectively model large homogenous parts of the infrastructure landscape, or in other words: if you have 1000 identical RHEL servers, modelling the structure of … Continue reading →