architectureDatabricks Data Intelligence Reference Architecture
A tour of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform's reference architecture, from Source and Ingest through Storage, Se…
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learning-pathsDeveloper to Architect: A T-shaped Learning Path
A visual learning path from developer to architect — ten breadth areas, five role rungs, and an honest way to score wher…
data-engineeringTop Ten Technology Trends for 2026
Observing technology trends through the lens of analysts, research organizations, thought leaders, and personal research…
architectureTop Ten Technology Trends for 2025
Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders creates awareness and helps build a bro…
architectureBuilding Gen AI Apps with Snowflake Cortex as a Foundational AI Platform
An illustrative blog with a reference application applying Snowflake Cortex With Generative AI in mainstream adoption, S…
architectureTop Ten Technology Trends for 2024
Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders provides a broader perspective. It not …
architectureTop 5 Open Source LLMs for Building Gen AI Enterprise Applications
Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) do not need any introduction with the rise of its massive adoption in the indu…
architectureKey Takeaways from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023
Since its inception in 2015, the CNCF community has evolved as a global community supporting open source, and vendor-neu…
architectureElevate Your AI Journey with Amazon Bedrock: Unraveling The Key Features
Amazon Bedrock, which was announced in April 2023, has drawn a lot of attention from businesses looking to leverage thei…
architectureTop Microservices Frameworks in Go
This article is an effort to summarize the Top Microservices Frameworks in Go. Considering the flexibility in MSA (Micro…
architectureKey Takeaways from AWS reInvent 2022
AWS re:Invent 2022 (Nov 28 — Dec 2) has continued the tradition of being the most happening cloud computing technology e…
architecture2022 — The Year In Review From Technology Perspective
2022 has been a phenomenal year from a technology perspective accelerating the adoption of digital transformation across…
architectureKey Takeaways from Google Cloud Next 2022
Along with significant product announcements, Google Cloud Next 2022 showed the company’s expanding customer base and pa…
architectureSystem Design Mind Map For Building Distributed Systems
System design is foundational for building software architecture in relation to the system under consideration. For buil…
architectureSpring Framework Ecosystem for Serverless, Microservices, Event-driven, Reactive Systems
Spring Framework, released almost two decades ago, has progressively established itself as a de facto standard for build…
architecture3 Emerging Technologies Redefining Application Architecture
Technology is an evolving field and while I published a separate article on a broader set of technologies getting moment…
architectureTechnology Trends and Updates To Know in API Management Ecosystem
With the evolution of enterprise application integration, APIs are the most common interface to exposing functionalities…
architectureThe Latest Trends in Serverless Application Development
Serverless computing has established itself in mainstream adoption and started appearing in the technology roadmap for e…
architecture5 Lessons Learned From Applying Kubernetes In The Enterprise
Kubernetes is no longer a technology under consideration — it is in mainstream adoption and an industry-standard as a co…
architectureCloud Native Is The New Architecture Mantra For Core Banking Solutions
As Cloud-Native technologies are in mainstream adoption, financial services and core banking products have started adopt…
architectureWhy caching and in-memory data grid is no longer an afterthought
Evolution of Caching Technologies In an early stage, caching started with simply putting data into memory (mostly as loc…
architectureAWS App Mesh vs. Istio: A Comparison Of Service Mesh
Context As Microservices architecture isolates system functionalities into multiple independent services, the communicat…
architecture5 Steps You Should Know About Building Cloud Solution Architecture on Azure Cloud
Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest-rising cloud solution providers and with their enriched history of building produc…
architecture5 Books Every Software Architect Should Read
This article starts with selecting 5 books every software architect should read as part of their career journey. These b…
architectureTop AWS reInvent 2021 Takeaways for Architects
AWS re:Invent 2021 (Nov 29 – Dec 3, 2021) has been the key highlight in the technology community particularly after the …
architectureTop 10 Things to Know About Security As A Software Architect
With the rise of security attacks and vulnerabilities, every software architect should focus on security considerations …
architecture5 Awesome Views of Kubernetes Architecture
Kubernetes has emerged as a de-facto standard for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for Microservices, Cloud Native, and emer…
architectureKey Takeaways from CNCF KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021
CNCF has recently wrapped up a virtual conference (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021) with 50+ sessions by eng…
architectureHow to apply user-centered design as a Software Architect?
Often as a software architect, the focus is on technology and related software delivery areas. However, awareness and kn…
architectureTop 10 Tips You Should Know As A Modern Software Architect
With fast-paced technology evolution, software architecture is evolving each day with new patterns and technology choice…
architectureKey Takeaways from SpringOne 2021 Developer Conference
SpringOne is a conference organized by VMWare (earlier Pivotal) is the premier conference for developers and architects …
architectureAre you an API Architect? Apply these standards for defining Event-driven and RESTful APIs
With the rise of Cloud, Microservices, and Cloud-native technologies, API development is one of the key focus areas for …
architectureEssential Engineering Skills For Every Software Architect
As a software architect in today’s world, expectations of essential engineering craft have increased drastically with th…
architectureEvolution of Microservices Frameworks & Services (API) Development in Java
In continuation to the previous article on Top Microservices Frameworks in Java, the evolution of Java frameworks with s…
architectureEngineering Blogs Every Software Architect Should Read
As a Software Architect, being aware and gaining broader context is a table-stakes in the current environment. But with …
architectureTop Microservices Frameworks In Java
This article is an effort to summarize the Top Microservices Frameworks in Java and is listed in no particular priority …
architectureSoftware Quality Strategy Is Essential For Every Architect
Ensuring software quality is one of the key performance indicators for a software architect. That’s why having a strateg…
architectureTop Ten Metrics You Need To Measure Productivity
Follow @ankurkumarz Follow @VedcraftTeam Measuring & tracking the progress of any program is key to success as quoted in…
architectureHow Did We Increase Incident Analysis Efficiency By Over 40 % using Splunk?
Splunk has been recognized to provide end-to-end data platform capabilities turning data into insights & actionable meas…
architectureMicroservice Architecture with Spring Cloud, Prometheus, Grafana, and Keycloak using Kubernetes
When I started research on building microservice architecture with completely opensource software, I established the fol…
architectureTop Ten Technology Trends For 2021
Based on reports published by research companies like Gartner, Forrester, Bain, Deloitte, there are numerous technology …
architectureLessons Learned from AWS Services Outage (Nov 2020)
Context, Analysis & Impact Amazon’s internet infrastructure service experienced a multi-hour outage on Wednesday that af…
architectureDon’t Reinvent for Cloud Migration or Adoption Framework
When it comes to cloud migration or adoption, often organizations get into the practice of building a cloud migration fr…
architecture5 Reports Every Software Architect Should Read
#1 – Google’s Accelerate State of DevOps Report Google’s research division has partnered with DORA (DevOps Research and …
architectureDon’t Miss These Critical Success Factors For API Management Using MuleSoft
As an enterprise API management solution, MuleSoft has been consistently recognized as a leader by research firms like G…
architectureWhy & How To Get Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Certified In 4 Weeks
Why To Get Azure Fundamentals? If you are using Azure Cloud, then this question becomes irrelevant. But if you are using…
architecture3 Simple Tricks Every Architect Should Know About Twelve-Factor App
Twelve-factor app, introduced by Heroku, became a popular reference as principles in building cloud-native or software-a…
architectureIntroduction to Software Architecture
If you are starting your journey as a software architect, getting to know the fundamentals of software architecture as p…
architectureTop 10 Tools You Should Know For Software Architecture and Design Diagrams
As a software architect, the future or current state of architecture and design need to be well-documented to align key …
architectureStandards and Guidelines for Software Architecture
As a software architect, it is important to understand available industry standards to increase your breadth of knowledg…
architecture5 Tips On Creating Effective Physical/Deployment Architecture For Cloud
In continuation with our series on empowering seasoned developers to be successful & informed software architects, this …
architecture5 Tips for Creating Effective Logical Architecture
A logical architecture helps to visualize and communicate the application’s logical & functional components and depicts …
architectureCreate Class Diagram in 6 Simple Steps
A class diagram is an important UML artifact in object-oriented programming & describes the structure of system under de…
architectureJourney from a software developer to a software architect
As a developer, there are many challenges and you solve them by applying many techniques such as refactoring, multi-thre…