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Practical REST API Design, implementation and Richardson Maturity Model
Richardson Maturity Model classifies REST API maturity as follows Level Zero: These services have a single URI and use a single HTTP method (typically POST). For example, most Web Services (WS-*)-based services use a single URI to identify an endpoint, and HTTP POST to transfer SOAP-based payloads, effectively ignoring the rest of the HTTP verbs.…
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What is Solution Architecture,
In my opinion, Solution Architecture is defining the design or organization of different systems and components to fulfill a business needs and requirements. By systems and components, I mean software applications, and the infrastructure (hardware devices, virtual machines, on-premises or on the cloud) the software runs on. Solution architecture is the combination of Application Architecture,…
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Enterprise Architecture and Domain Driven Design
Why do we call engineers who are building Architects? When I visited Rome in May 2018 and visited the colosseum, our guide pointed out that the colosseum arches were the inspiration for the architecture science or the knowledge of how to build arches. How to build arches is a very complex process, it took a…
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Choosing a Platform for a new microservice
Microservices endorses using different technologies to build components of a solution or a system. You can have components based on Java or Scala with Spring or C# & .Net etc. But if you are going to build a new microservice which platform should you use? Most developer’s or architects would choose based on their background…
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SharePoint Content Management
I met with a previous colleague a few days ago who had move to an IT Research and advisory company. He was working on writing a best-practices recommendation for using SharePoint and the utilization of SharePoint Content Management capabilities in the enterprise data governance. Since, I had worked in many organizations before and utilized SharePoint…
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Enterprise Architecture and Domain Driven Design – Build Custom Business Logic as Microservice or part of the COTS Application?
As enterprise Architects, depending on the organization we are adopting readymade software applications (or COTS) and tailoring or customization of the software to the needs of the organization. The tailoring can involve UI changes, workflows changes, integrations with other systems in the organization and sometimes business logic added or modified. The UI changes usually must…
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Enterprise Architecture and Domain Driven Design – 1
Why do we call engineers who deign building Architects? When I visited Rome in May 2018 and visited the colosseum, our guide pointed out that the colosseum arches were the inspiration for the architecture science or the knowledge of how to build arches. How to build arches is a very complex process, it took a…
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Cloud Architecture Basics
In this blog, I will take a vendor agnostic look at cloud computing, both on-premises private cloud computing, as well as public cloud solutions. There is no one size fits all approach to cloud computing, it depends on loads of different business scenarios, what some of the options are and how you go about making…
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Kafka VS BizTalk as Integration Platform
Apache Kafka is all about getting large amounts of data from one place to another, rapidly, and reliably. Apache Kafka is a messaging system that is tailored for high throughput use cases, where vast amounts of data need to be moved in a scalable, fault tolerant way. I have been designing and building integrations for…
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Introduction to Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka is all about getting large amounts of data from one place to another, rapidly, and reliably. In computing terms Apache Kafka is a messaging system that is tailored for high throughput use cases, where vast amounts of data need to be moved in a scalable, fault tolerant way. That is why companies like…
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