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On 31st March 2017, I attended the PowerSwitch conference, organized by CRASSH – the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, at Cambridge University.Event details herehttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27100Video recordingsCorp…
There are very valid reasons for considering a microservice architecture (MSA) when building/evolving an application. In my opinion, however, forcing modularity isn’t one of those very valid reasons. Just the other day, I saw tweet from Simon Brown saying this same thing: I still like his comment from two years back: “I’ll keep saying […]
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One of the interesting dynamics of the service economy lies in the dialectic opposition between open and proprietary. I have mentioned some useful conceptual models in previous posts: Amin and Cohendet have proposed a model that classifies capabilities…
People like easy answers. Why spend time analyzing and evaluating when you can just take some thing or some technique that someone else has already put to use and be done with it? Why indeed? I mean, “me too” is a valid strategy, right? And we don’t want people to get off message, right? And […]
The Open Group, the vendor-neutral IT consortium, is hosting its upcoming event in Berlin, April 24-27, 2017. The Open Group Berlin 2017 will focus on
When the usual chaos of working as an adult, hits you, then it is understandable that you, yes you- will find something else to dry your thirst of new things and adventures.And that what’s happened.I was hired as a System Analyst for Sinag Solutions la…
Football, basketball and hockey are all popular team sports played around the world. All push the team spirit, have a play to win attitude and watch the competition fiercely. They also have fans, enemies and […]
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Alternative truth should be nothing new for everyone working on projects as their is always a current truth called the project plan and potential truth, if the the current timeline is no longer working out. Also in architecture we are working with options, plan B and C, as well as conflicting scope and requirement considerations. … Continue reading Alternative truth for architects →
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Several Forrester colleagues and I attended the Google Next conference earlier this month, an event showcasing the Google Cloud Platform portfolio. One message, however, was distinctly NOT cloudy: Google is aiming at the enterprise market. And that inc…