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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. Your architectures, and your strategies, must be similarly flexible in order to endure. We'll look at this later when we discuss how to support evolutionary architectures through our strategies.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

These new recruits also had an aversion to getting deeply intimate with the domain, preferring to work on "product strategy" rather than the details of product requirements. IT had decoupled itself from justifying every dollar of spend based on returns to being a provider of development capacity for an annual rate of spend.

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AI’s ‘SolarWinds Moment’ Will Occur; It’s Just a Matter of When

O'Reilly

The financial collapse of 2008 led to tighter regulation of banks and financial institutions. An outcomes-based strategy would look at the impact of an AI or ML solution on specific categories and subgroups of stakeholders. Even when catastrophes don’t kill large numbers of people, they often change how we think and behave.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Templates.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008. Is it dependent on commodity ABAP developers?

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The Innovator's Cunundrum

The Agile Manager

Even as the pandemic hits sales, [automakers] need to pour vast sums into developing electrical vehicles - with absolutely no guarantee of success. -- FT Lex, July 29, 2020 Socioeconomic systems in transition are impossible to navigate. The macro strategy risks are almost too obvious to point out. Good luck with that.

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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. Although we automate, and don't manage instances by hand, our developers and operators know not to build tools or procedures that could impact multiple Availability Zones.

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