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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved.

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Can we stop misusing the word "Governance"?

The Agile Manager

The other is that it is primarily concerned with compliance with protocols, procedures or regulations, such as ITIL or Sarbanes-Oxley or even coding and architectural standards. As the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became glaringly obvious that few bank directors had any detailed understanding of either banking or risk.)

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. The Amazon S3 team still celebrate with homemade pies!

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Intel officially moved on to what they call " Process- Architecture-Optimization (PAO) " in early 2016. So, what has changed my mind?

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

This approach can be expressed in more formal way by the following equation: where is the data available for analysis, is the space of a retailer’s actions and decisions, is an econometric model defined as a function of actions and data, and is the optimal strategy. Schütze, 2008. MA08] Introduction to Information Retrieval, C.

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