Modern Enterprise Data Architecture

Learn modern enterprise data architecture perspectives, including solution approaches and architectural models to develop new-age solutions.

Data plays a vital role in conceptualizing the preliminary design for an architecture. You may want to decide the requirements for security, performance, and infrastructure to handle workload, scalability, and agility in design. In this case, you need to understand data models and how to handle architectural decisions, including data privacy and security, compliance requirements, data size to handle, and user handling requirements. 

This is the reason that data-driven architecture is the driving factor for an enterprise design development. The modern enterprise architectures that are referred to in this article include microservices, cloud-native applications, event-driven solutions, and data-intensive solutions. The article intends to share modern enterprise data architecture perspectives, including solution approaches and architectural models to develop new-age solutions catering to velocity, veracity, volume, and variety of data handling services.  Read More

#data-lake, #microservices

API Is Dead – Long Live the APIs

In this article, the author will highlight how the reign of REST APIs is declining and how the ecosystem is moving towards democracy. Read More

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Catalytic: ‘RPA is the gateway drug for AI’

The immediate benefit of RPA is that it can eliminate a lot of repetitive manual labor and free up humans for what they are better at. But there’s also a side effect. RPA helps enterprises create a standardize framework for capturing data about how they execute processes as well as data about how processes can get delayed or stalled.

“If you set up RPA the right way by instrumenting the process, it’s possible to gather data to use as the training set for machine learning,” said Ted Shelton, Chief Revenue Officer at Catalytic, in an interview at Transform 2019. “RPA is the gateway drug for AI.” Read More

#microservices, #robotics

Microservices Anti-Patterns

Microservices is a silver bullet, magic pill, instant fix, and can’t-go-wrong solution to all of software’s problems. In fact, as soon you implement even the basics of microservices all of your dreams come true; you will triple productivity, reach your ideal weight, land your dream job, win the lottery 10 times, and be able to fly, clearly.

While this sounds like a lot of hyperbole wrapped up in some BS, if you have been listening to anything around microservices recently you will most likely have heard something not too far from this exaggerated sentiment — especially if it is coming from sales folks.

As a result of this, you or someone you know will likely have been charged by management to implement a solution in microservices or refactor an existing application to take advantage of microservices to ensure that you get all the magic. With so much overinflation of the truth out there, chances are you may have also implemented a microservices antipattern. These antipatterns are actually more common in the wild than fully functional microservices architectures. Read More

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