Essential Engineering Skills For Every Software Architect

July 15, 2021July 19, 2021 Ankur Kumar

As a software architect in today’s world, expectations of essential engineering craft have increased drastically with the rise of the spectrum of technologies. Full-stack architecture knowledge, product & design thinking with customer centricity, startup mindset to do experimentation applying platform engineering, proactive production monitoring & observability applying SRE practices, and many more engineering practices are the new normal. The breadth of Engineering Knowledge is becoming more important than the depth…

Evolution of Microservices Frameworks & Services (API) Development in Java

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 Ankur Kumar

In continuation to the previous article on Top Microservices Frameworks in Java, the evolution of Java frameworks with service-oriented architecture towards microservices architecture helps to understand the complete perspective. Evolution of Java & Services Frameworks with Industry Trends Java EE launched EJB Specifications in 1999 to standardize enterprise services development to help developer’s focus on business logic encapsulation and underlying container (application server) handling non-functional aspects. Spring framework (launched in…

Engineering Blogs Every Software Architect Should Read

June 5, 2021June 5, 2021 Ankur Kumar

As a Software Architect, being aware and gaining broader context is a table-stakes in the current environment. But with information overload with many sources (social media, blogs, news articles, etc.), it is essential to prioritize your reading preferences. The decision to what to read and what not to read is a personal decision and your area of interest/skillset (user experience, web, data, integration, machine learning / artificial intelligence, IoT, DevOps,…

Accelerate Your Cloud Migration Journey With Cloud Assessment Technology

July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 Ankur Kumar

Context Cloud migration is the top priority for IT executives as per the survey by leading research firms. Gartner (in their technology trends 2021) and SaaS vendors like Flexera (published 2021 State of Cloud Report) have predicted that COVID-19 has accelerated Cloud migration plans and the key message coming out as: Accelerated Cloud Migration is the need of the hour and continues to be the top priority as a strategic initiative for…

Solution Options for Choosing the Right Kubernetes Management Strategy

June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 Ankur Kumar

The emergence of Kubernetes as an industry standard for container orchestration platforms is recognized as one of the key technology trends. Kubernetes ensures that containers are orchestrated and managed consistently across environments and has accelerated the development ecosystem. Kubernetes will soon be pervasive similar to Linux with key trends as: Kubernetes as hybrid cloud engine – the backbone for a hybrid-cloud architecture as it is a common PaaS platform supported…

SUSE Is All About Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes, And Edge Computing

May 27, 2021May 27, 2021 Ankur Kumar

SUSECON has been concluded recently (May 18-20) with 50+ sessions in the area of Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes, and Edge Computing. SUSE has been an avid contributor to Opensource in the area of Cloud Infrastructure (e.g. OpenStack, Kubernetes), Application Platform (Cloud Foundry), Operating System-Level Virtualization (OCI, KVM), Operating Systems (OpenSUSE), and many more. Their recent acquistion of Ranche aligns with their increased focus on Enterprise Kubernetes Management and Edge Computing. This…

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