Are you an API Architect? Apply these standards for defining Event-driven and RESTful APIs

August 14, 2021September 10, 2021 Ankur Kumar

With the rise of Cloud, Microservices, and Cloud-native technologies, API development is one of the key focus areas for organizations – both from an internal and external integration perspective. OpenAPI – Standard for RESTful APIs OpenAPI specification (originally based on Swagger 2.0) has become the de facto industry standard for HTTP APIs providing the programming-language agnostic interface. Key highlights are: OpenAPI can not only describe APIs based on the HTTP…

5 Steps You Should Know About Building Cloud Solution Architecture on Azure Cloud

August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 Ankur Kumar

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest-rising cloud solution providers and with their enriched history of building products, Microsoft has created a knowledge hub to help build cloud solution architecture. Azure Architecture Center provides a centralized place for architecting solutions on Azure using established patterns and practices. The below diagram depicts the five-step process to follow when building cloud architecture on Azure: Step 1 – Choose Architecture Style First step…

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…

Key Takeaways from SpringOne 2021 Developer Conference

September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 Ankur Kumar

SpringOne is a conference organized by VMWare (earlier Pivotal) is the premier conference for developers and architects building cloud-native software. They have recently concluded SpringOne 2021 on September 1-2, 2021 covering broader areas such as beginner and advanced Spring framework, Architecture Patterns and Cloud-native Platforms. This article summarizes key takeaways from SpringOne 2021 developer conference. #1 – Developer productivity & application platform is pivotal Highlighted key focus areas to enable developer’s…

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…

Modern Technical Buzzwords You Should Know As A Software Architect

August 21, 2021August 21, 2021 Ankur Kumar

With the fast-paced technology landscape, there are modern technical buzzwords every software architect encounters on a day-to-day basis. The purpose of this blog is to enlist the majority of these buzzwords that you should know as a software architect. These are coined by industry experts, technology companies, research firms, domain experts, cloud companies, and so on. To ensure that we collaborate as a community, we have created a GitHub repository…

Linux Commands Every Architect Should Know

March 20, 2021August 24, 2021 Ankur Kumar

Linux is pervasive in software deployment architecture, and being a hands-on technologist with Linux helps in various ways. This article summarizes most of the commonly used Linux commands & utilities every architect should know. As each variant or distribution of Linux might have differences, there might be some variation as per Linux variants: Debian Linux, RHEL & CentOS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Alpine Linux, and Arch Linux. Before we start,…

Free Docker & Kubernetes Courses For Application Architects

March 1, 2021April 18, 2021 Ankur Kumar

As a full-stack architect, understanding and being hands-on with Docker & Kubernetes helps you to drive end-to-end architecture and technology decisions. This article summarizes free Docker & Kubernetes courses focused for application architects. #1 – Containerization with Docker Apart from having the basic knowledge of Docker, advanced knowledge of container runtime helps during troubleshooting and using advanced container creation practices such as multi-stage docker build. Additionally, having the basic knowledge…

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