#Demystifying #Digital #Product #Management – the new #Gartner’s promotion

Published on July 21, 2019 For #Business & #Technology #Executives, Product Managers, and Business and #Enterprise #Architects The Subject & Context Recently Gartner published the research – “How Unlocks Digital Product Management Opportunities for New Value Creation”, authored by Analyst Lars Van Dam – has caught my attention with a new term “Digital Product Management”. …

#Implementation-agnostic #Logging for #Microservices

Published on May 10, 2019 After several years of using Microservices, people still debate what would be the best or minimally sufficient logging mechanism for independently deployed and loosely-interacting autonomous Microservices. Nowadays, when DevOps are responsible not only for the fast development and deployment, but also are made liable for supporting produced Microservices, the perception …

#Rules #Pattern for #Microservices

Published on July 9, 2019 “…back to the future”. Industry counts many different applications where components have to make automated decisions about something. Typical representatives of such applications are Workflows, Business Process Automation and alike.  The values of gathered experience are significant and it would irrational to lose them only because developers use new technologies …

#Microservice #Polling: #Tandem #Pattern for Reliability

Published on April 30, 2019 Intent This pattern increases durability of polling data by a Microservice (MS) and, as a result, increases robustness of the overall application or system. A Microservice, in contrast to SOA Service, can initiate its work based on a schedule with no other elements of the Application (App) being aware of …

#Sib #Pattern for #Microservice #Fault #Tolerance

Published on March 3, 2019 Fault tolerance requirement was known for a long time before Microservices were defined. This requirement has surfaced again because when working with relatively small applications or components like Microservices, it is much easier to observe fault tolerance and it replicates at a higher scale than when working with monolith applications. …

#Microservice #Database #Anti-#Pattern

Published on February 24, 2019 By definition, Microservices (MS) are supposed to possess such service-oriented aspects as being independent (from what: from each other, or from environment, or both, or this is a signal of different ownership of the MS in the same Application),  autonomous (can perform its business tasks on its own), specialised. While …

Three Major #Principles of #Technology #Innovations

Published on January 22, 2019 To Architects, Developers and thier Managers #1 An Innovation may not harm its Consumers #2 An Innovation may not harm its Owner(s) #3 Disallow any exceptions from Principle #1 and Principle #2 Technology has reached such a point where people have to apply the rule created last century to nuclear power. …

“#Lean #Architecture”: is it for real?

Published on January 7, 2019 I’ve just checked Google for the term “Lean Architecture” and found several links, all of which lead to a quite ambiguous situation. Not earlier than last year, Chris Shayan published an article “Lean Architecture” in DZone. He said, ”The concept or architecture remains a staple in descriptions of various forms …

Beware: Sprint Abuses SOA in Microservices

Published on December 22, 2018 For the last couple of years, people were debating whether Microservices realise SOA. With my experience in Services of 22 years, I can confirm that Microservices do realise SOA at a “teenager” maturity level, while Web Services and REST were at the kindergarten SOA maturity level. How am I count …

A Client-centric priority versus Regulation priority

Published on December 6, 2018 More than a half-year has passed since GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation) moved into force. Have you heard about any laud GDPR cases where companies were fined? I’ve heard about only one – Ms. Elizabeth Denham, the UK Information GDPR Commissioner, stated that she might investigate Facebook for exposing people’s …

In the Mind of Experienced Architect Learning SAFe

Published on April 8, 2018 Let’s imagine an IT architect with more than 10 years of experience at project, programme and enterprise level. This person starts working on each new task with two questions: “what is it?” and “why is this needed/important?”. The architect appreciates new technologies when they deliver what they promise and are …

When Agile Steps on Its Own Tail: an observation from tranches

Published on January 15, 2017 Every profession is associated with certain objectives and attributes, which allow to distinguish it from another one. The same understanding exist or should exist in IT. When we run a project in an Agile Scrum methodology, we usually recognise three roles: Project/Product Owner, Scrum Master and a Team. It is …

“In the Mind of Business Architect” : From Disruption to Destruction: GDPR , PSD2 and API

Published on April 16, 2017 Opening business eyes on some aspects of Technology Revolution IT was and is isolated… by Business. This is, probably, the reason for intent in IT Departments to disrupt everything around – to be noticed, at least. This includes a wave of innovations in technology as well. I have this guess …

Open Banking API Process ‘to be’

Published on January 1, 2018 Happy New 2018 Year to All! My best wishes to you in have a luck of safing your bank accounts An Open Banking initiative is a UK specific adoption of the EU PSD2 Regulation. The UK enthusiasts wanted to be “more saint than the Pope of Rome” and added almost …

GDPR and Microservice Security – compliance in question

Published on April 5, 2018 A Problem An emerging EU regulation – GDPR – defines a requirement that asks developers to create business and technology solutions with default data privacy protection by design. This requirement conquers the worlds of DevOps and API/Microservice Economy first of all. The result of this is that traditional perimeter protection …

#GDPR Check-points: #API #Economy, #RAML and #Open #Source

Published on April 22, 2018 Context While IT enjoys Digital Revolution, the European business and all related businesses around the world are counting the last 30 days before the EU GDPR gets in the force. Though IT has been made the major enabler of compliance with this regulation, only a few companies have realised that …

Jeopardy of an API Economy

2015 Why I am moving against the flow again? Why all around are getting excited about APIs and I don’t? Probably, this is because of negative post-taste after DOT-COMs and global webinisation of industry  15 years ago when the most sensitive information was offered to anyone, including competitors and simply not good people or it …

‘How-to’ for MoSCoW Method: Resolving Fundamental Problems

Published on December 8, 2018 The MoSCoW method exists for many years already and the common opinion is that this method is for prioritising requirements, business or technical. It is used for achieving a shared understanding (Problem #1) with stakeholders on the priority they (Problem # 2) identify for each requirement. Apparently, MoSCoW is only …

IT Mindset in Approaching a Business Architecture Maturity

Published on April 1, 2017 I am trying to make my mind around the recent article of Simona Lovin about Business Architecture Maturity. When I read it, I could not rid of a feeling I’ve seen something very similar already. Indeed, it was an ADM from TOGAF standard. For those who are unfamiliar with this …

TOG Open Business Architecture standard is, actually, about IT transformation

Published on August 17, 2017, on LinkedIn I’d like to thank Dr. Giovanni Traverso of Huawei for the description of the Open Business Architecture (O-BA) standard in his presentation at The Open Group Shanghai 2016 Summit. It is not easy to access the standard being not a member of The Open Group (TOG) (interesting, whom is …