Best Practices for Enterprise Application Architecture
The iterative approach is a more practical method of building enterprise
application architectures, where you start small and build out your architecture
in small, incremental steps. This approach is particularly useful for
enterprises with limited resources and can’t afford to build a full-scale
architecture from scratch. Instead of starting with a full-scale architecture,
design and implement a series of smaller “proof-of-concept” applications that
prove the feasibility of your ideas. Once these applications are ready, you can
scale them into an enterprise-level solution. ... The Agile adoption process is
a critical step for any enterprise application, and the implementation of agile
methodology can be daunting for organizations that have not done it before.
However, there are many benefits to adopting a more agile development approach,
which includes delivering software faster and at less cost. ... EA governance is
the process involved in managing and maintaining an EA. This includes
identifying and defining an EA’s goals, objectives, and key performance
indicators (KPIs). It also involves establishing a governance framework that
supports the EA’s development, management, and maintenance.
Technology leader shall be open to accepting changes
As systems evolve over time, so does their complexity. Maintaining such systems
or components will always be a challenge. While people will be on the move,
there shall be an inventory of all the systems and components, along with
actively maintained documentation, which many organisations don’t adhere to.
Maintainability should be considered as a key consideration while designing and
building systems. ... Technology leaders must demonstrate consistent delivery of
high-quality services, which necessitates the implementation of appropriate
systems and processes. Simultaneously, such systems and processes must not be a
barrier to adapting to a changing business and technology ecosystem. ... Like
GDPR, many countries are coming up with regulations for data privacy and cyber
security requirements. Coping with such demands is necessary, but it is
difficult because it is complex, dynamic, and ever-changing. To add to that,
establishing a return on investment for security solutions is very
challenging.
7 hard truths of business-IT alignment
Some CIOs treat IT-business alignment as their own responsibility. That’s a
mistake, experts say. “The leadership team below the CIO also needs to be
customer facing. It needs to be able to help solve problems. It shouldn’t just
be going away and writing code,” Pettinato says. “To make it scalable, you
need to take it beyond just one individual.” “I clearly can’t, myself, be
involved in every organizational conversation,” Barchi says. “That is where
trusting your team helps. There are many leaders on my team who are in these
meetings day in and day out, solving problems in real time.” In fact, he says,
creating a team that’s capable of doing this is the most important part of his
job. “As I’ve grown as a leader, I’ve recognized that my contribution is not
my own technical skill and my ability to make decisions. It’s my ability to
create a team that can do all of that,” Barchi says. “I think CIOs do well
when we know that our job is not to be involved in every technology decision —
it’s to create the environment where that can happen and create a team that
can do that.”
Teaching is complicated. But technology in the classroom doesn't have to be
When the pandemic forced schoolchildren to learn from home and adapt to
digital learning, educators lost their students' attention, and learning
suffered. But once schools opened up, digital learning didn't disappear; for
many, it became the norm. Seage says technology should never be the driver of
the classroom. "The technology has to complement what you do. It complements
all different teaching styles," he says. As a former student, Seage recalls
the difficulty teachers faced in finding novel ways to engage students and
wanted to offer a solution. Interactive whiteboards offer a low learning curve
for teachers and students while also promoting interaction and collaboration,
he says. In the school's gymnasium, for instance, boards serve as an enhanced
coaching tool, allowing coaches and players to re-watch game footage during
practice, or strategize game plays for future matches. Micah Shippee, director
of education technology consulting and solutions at Samsung, is a former
educator who now works with schools to adopt Samsung technology.
How to Choose the Best Software Architecture for Your Enterprise App?
Patterns in architecture are ways to fix common design problems that can be
used repeatedly. Their framework makes it easier to reuse code and keeps
apps running smoothly for longer. In addition to being scalable, flexible,
and easy to keep up with, the software must be able to handle a wide range
of requests without any problems. But making software hard to use could go
against these goals because it makes it less likely that people will use the
software and use it well. Because of this, the software needs to be very
flexible to be changed to meet the needs of each user. ... An event producer
and a consumer are the two most important parts of an EDA system. A producer
is someone who knows how to put on an event. Put another way, it is up to
the person watching the possibility to pay attention to what is happening.
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a way of making software that relies on
events to send messages between modules. It breaks applications into small
pieces called modules that can run on their own and share data with a small
number of other modules using standard protocols.
Is there a cyber conflict happening behind the scenes?
There’s a global digital dependency happening right now, accelerated even
further by the pandemic driving a need for remote services in nearly every
industry. While this adaptation is an overall benefit to progressive
societies, it opens new and innovative ways for cyber attackers to target
organizations and consumers alike. Even those who aren’t connected are
inadvertently impacted by the digital world and cyberattacks, which has
people around the world asking: is there a cyber battle going on? ... At
the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict earlier this year,
Russians attacked a satellite provider in Ukraine, affecting countries
including Germany and France and bricking edge devices across the
continent. This affected both civilian and military communication,
hindering war efforts on the Ukraine side and evacuation efforts for
fleeing citizens. These attacks aren’t just being carried out by
high-level nation-state actors, they’re also being carried out by
hacktivists and volunteers. Even simple distributed denial-of-service
(DDoS) attacks can generate damage with the right amount of
devices.
IT Ops 4.0: Operations Architecture For The Industry Automation Age
A structured communication effort is essential to gaining support and
motivating employees. Every organization has its way of getting started
and doing this, but most steps involve at least three elements. Engage
people in alignment with the vision. It’s essential to be transparent
about where we are (or where we started), where we’re heading, and how
we’re getting there as a team. This is to demonstrate the value of
transformation, both for the organization and its employees.It is
essential to experience problems, challenges, or innovative approaches.
Employees gain a better understanding by learning from the companies
leading the way. Tours enable employees to think outside the box, hear
stories of change, and discuss the challenges that come with it.When
people know that change has been around for a long time and understand why
it is happening, they tend to want to learn as much as possible about it.
Employers need to gain momentum and make it as easy as possible to provide
access to information and resources on new technologies and approaches.
Why Wasm is the future of cloud computing
Wasm is already very capable. And with the new technologies and standards
that are on the way, Wasm will let you do even more. ... WASI will provide
a standard set of APIs and services that can be used when Wasm modules are
running on the server. Many standard proposals are still in progress, such
as garbage collection, network I/O, and threading, so you can’t always map
the things that you’re doing in other programming languages to Wasm. But
eventually, WASI aims to provide a full standard that will help to achieve
that. In many ways, the goals of WASI are similar to POSIX. Wasm as it now
stands also doesn’t address the ability to link or communicate with other
Wasm modules. But the Wasm community, with support from members of the
computing industry, is working on the creation of something called the
component model. This aims to create a dynamic linking infrastructure
around Wasm modules, defining how components start up and communicate with
each other (similar to a traditional OS’s process model).
Making the case for security operation automation
Security teams must be able to scale operations to deal with the
increasing volume of everything coming at them. Faced with a global
cybersecurity skills shortage, CISOs need alternatives to hiring their way
out of this quagmire. ... When it comes to security operations process
automation, one might equate this activity with security orchestration,
automation, and response (SOAR) technology. In some cases, this is a
correct assumption, as 37% of organizations use some type of commercial
SOAR tools. Interestingly, more than half (53%) of organizations eschew
SOAR, using security operations process automation functionality within
other security technologies instead – security information and event
management (SIEM), threat intelligence platforms (TIPs), IT operations
tools, or extended detection and response (XDR), for example. Those
organizations using SOAR admit that it is no day at the beach – 80% agree
that using SOAR was more complex and time consuming than they anticipated.
Technology aside, security professionals acknowledge that there are a few
major impediments to security operations process automation.
Gender has no bearing on your abilities in tech industry
According to statistical information, there is clearly not an equal
representation of women in technology. ... The first is stereotyping,
conscious & unconscious biases, which occur when people believe that
being a woman, may have a negative impact on performance, level of
intelligence or aptitude. I believe it began when women were not
encouraged to pursue STEM courses – Science, Technology, Engineering and
Math. Nowadays, there are concerted efforts and interventions to encourage
women to pursue STEM degrees. Secondly, there aren’t enough role models,
advocates, and people who are challenging the status quo. Although
overall, things have improved significantly in recent years. I do not
recall knowing any Nigerian woman in Data Analytics or Business
Intelligence when I started my career. I never met them or heard about
them. I seriously doubt they existed at the time, which says a lot. The
lack of role models at the time was a major factor, but I am glad things
are improving now.
Quote for the day:
"Setting an example is not the
main means of influencing others, it is the only means." --
Albert Einstein
