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Most of us like to be ethical architects, however ethics is often practiced more by younger architects than by older. The problem behind this is often found in our definition of ethics, as we will focus our ethics on outcomes and on the judgement of others. As we are getting more experienced in architecture we … Continue reading The ethical architect →
We don’t want to have the privacy and security problems we have in the Internet today in the world of IoT.
What’s all the fuss about autonomous weapons? Isn’t it just a logical progression from the weapons-systems we already have? Perhaps it is – and that’s the problem… To illustrate this, first take one of these: In that form, it’s a…
Link: https://jeffreyblake.tumblr.com/post/125564114956 From Jeffrey Blake – Web+Cloud+Strategy 00
Link: http://jeffreyblake.tumblr.com/post/125564114956 From Jeffrey Blake – Web+Cloud+Strategy 00
TechTarget has published another one of my “Ask the Expert” columns. In this one, I offer up my thoughts on the differences between a Microservices Architecture and a SOA. In a nutshell, I think the microservices trend has moved things in the right direction, a direction that many of the SOA pundits were espousing back […]
Recently I was contacted by a CIO of a company in UAE who I know for many years. He asked me to review some system architecture, as they had some problems. It turned out to be a very standard architecture with a GUI layer for data entry and a message hub transporting the entry message … Continue reading The importance of open-mindness in architecture. →
IoT is enabled by the progress of the Digital technology and it relies upon other digitally enabled technologies that can be controlled digitally as such.
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 →
Two words: auftragstaktik and fingerspitzengefühl. To an English speaker, they might look kinda weird, but they’re key to getting an enterprise to work well… The terms originate from the German military, from around the early-19thC and mid-20thC respectively. They would translate approximately…
Many organizations with large legacy application landscapes can no longer postpone a major overhaul of their IT. But how do you avoid creating tomorrow’s legacy today all over again? And how do you spend your IT budget in the most sensible way? Next to appropriate design and development practices (e.g. enterprise architecture, agile and DevOps, as we addressed in our previous blog) you need to manage your application portfolio as a whole, to decide where it is most important to invest.
IoT regulation must be specified at this stage… Someone, not some Thing, must be ultimately accountable.