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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'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

Strategy 100
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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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2019 Open Source Database Report: Top Databases, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise, Polyglot Persistence

High Scalability

Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019?

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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.

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The Innovator's Cunundrum

The Agile Manager

Plenty of people bet and lost - in many cases quite tragically - during the 1918 Russian revolution, the great depression that began in 1929, the 2008 financial crisis, as well as in many other transitions in between. The macro strategy risks are almost too obvious to point out. The successful strategy will be one of muddling through.

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Excellence

The Agile Manager

In his book Good Strategy, Bad Strategy , Dr. Richard Rumelt lays out characteristics of bad strategy, including mistaking goals for strategy. Bad strategy", writes Dr. Rumelt, "is long on goals and short on policy or action. Good strategy consists of a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action.

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File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

In 2008, with the emergence of Btrfs, a new implementation was built taking advantage of Btrfs’ transactions, deduplication, checksums, and compression. The authors tried three different strategies over time for transactions, each of them resulting in either significant performance or complexity overhead. The first implementation (c.

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