Tag: Architecture

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures.Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss strategies for choosing an appropriate architecture. By interweaving a story about a fictional group of technology professionals--the Sysops Squad--they examine everything from how to determine service granularity, manage workflows and orchestration, manage ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Or Hillel. Using data for business is no longer optional if you hope to keep up. Every day, over 2 exabytes of data are generated. There are a lot of valuable insights that can be garnered from accessing and analyzing some of that data.  Part of the reason for Big Data's power and popularity is the speed with which it empowers your business decisions. What used to take months can now take mere seconds to pull up, analyze, and inform your decisions.  It's difficult to overstate the power and possibilities of real-time data like what ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Traci Curran. Data is everywhere. In any organization, you will find data in multiple applications, databases, data warehouses, and in many cases, public and private clouds. Usually, data does not belong to a specific group within an organization and is often shared across teams and applications.Similar to a professional sports team, each function in the organization should have a specific role, sharing data and information in real-time to support better outcomes. In order to efficiently share data, businesses need to focus on integrating their data in an automated and timely manner. This can be a challenge when ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Learning by doing is the best way to grasp new technologies With interactive learning, teams get hands-on experience with tech like Kubernetes, Python, Docker, Java, and more—in safe live dev environments. So they’re more comfortable putting it to work in real-world situations ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. The AWS Architecture Center provides new and notable reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, AWS Well-Architected best practices, whitepapers, and more. This blog post features some of our best picks from the new and newly updated content we released in the past month. The travel and hospitality industries are facing new challenges when generating, accessing, and analyzing data at scale. This new reference architecture diagram shows how to implement a travel and hospitality-related data mesh that you can use to work with data such as travel reservations, loyalty programs, and digital revenue. This new whitepaper discusses ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. The travel industry relies on OpenTravel messaging systems to collect and distribute travel data—like hotel inventory and pricing—to many independent ecommerce travel sites. These travel sites need immediate access to the most current hotel inventory and pricing data. This allows shoppers access to the available rooms at the right prices. Each time a room is reserved, unreserved, or there is a price change, an ordered message with minimal latency must be sent from the hotel system to the travel site. Overview of Solution In this blog post, we will describe the architectural considerations needed to scale ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Customers are building databases, data warehouses, and data lake solutions in isolation from each other, each having its own separate data ingestion, storage, management, and governance layers. Often these disjointed efforts to build separate data stores end up creating data silos, data integration complexities, excessive data movement, and data consistency issues. These issues are preventing customers from getting deeper insights. To overcome these issues and easily move data around, a Lake House approach on AWS was introduced. In this blog post, we illustrate the AWS Glue integration components that you can use to accelerate building a ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Information architecture definedInformation architecture is a discipline focused on structuring, organizing, and categorizing content and data in an effective and usable way, largely for websites and applications.Application front ends are becoming increasingly complex, spanning multiple platforms, covering multiple use cases, and drawing data from an ever-growing collection of information sources. Information architecture is the art of putting all the pieces together into a coherent whole.Information architecture frameworkWithout solid information architecture, companies don’t get the maximum value out of the data collected in warehouses, says Daniel Wallance, associate partner at McKinsey & Co.“The volumes of data have ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Welcome to this three part podcast series on ‘Liberating data: the new paradigm to drive business success and customer delight’ brought to you by Google Cloud, Accenture and IDG Communications. In this our first episode we’ll be talking about the importance of developing a proper customer data architecture (CDA) as the first step towards truly realising the potential of your business data to help transform customer experiences. In today’s hyper-connected, 24/7 digital world customers are demanding everything from faster delivery to more choice as well as greater levels of personalisation than anyone would have thought possible ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. This post was written by Luca Mezzalira, Principal Solutions Architect, Media and Entertainment. Agility enables you to evolve a workload quickly, adding new features, or introducing new infrastructure as required. The key characteristics for achieving agility in a code base are loosely coupled components and strong encapsulation. Loose coupling can help improve test coverage and create atomic refactoring. With encapsulation, you expose only what is needed to interact with a service without revealing the implementation logic. Evolutionary architectures can help achieve agility in your design. In the book “Building Evolutionary Architectures”, this architecture ... Read More