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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. From pre-built libraries for linear or logistic regressions, decision trees, naïve Bayes, k-means, gradient-boosting, etc.,

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid." He writes, "Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point; tactics decides the manner of execution." It must be beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

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Forming an Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET)

Strategic Tech

To demonstrate this process, we will build a canvas for the following fictitious example (inspired by real examples from our consulting work): A large logistics company wants to expand into new verticals and integrate its offerings into an emerging open marketplace. They are targeting 3–5x revenue growth in the next 5 years.