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What Is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)? Working, Architecture, and Commands

IT Toolbox

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) handles big data and scales Hadoop clusters to numerous nodes. The post What Is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)? Working, Architecture, and Commands appeared first on.

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What Is Service-Oriented Architecture? Working, Principles, and Benefits

IT Toolbox

Service-oriented architecture is a development model that builds distributed systems that provide services across applications via a protocol. The post What Is Service-Oriented Architecture? Working, Principles, and Benefits appeared first on Spiceworks.

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What Is a Data Center? Working, Types, Architecture, and Best Practices

IT Toolbox

A data center houses backend computers (without a user interface) and ancillary systems like cooling and networking. Working, Types, Architecture, and Best Practices appeared first on. The post What Is a Data Center?

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Lean Isn’t Always Lean: There Are Lean Cores And Lean Cores In Banking

Forrester IT

A few days ago, I discussed application architecture in banking with a banking software vendor. Starting from there, we had a look at that vendor’s core banking solutions and further back-end systems such as trade finance. The vendor quickly suggested that its solutions align with Forrester’s concept of a lean core.

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Building Evolvable Architectures

Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks

It’s no surprise many CIOs and CTOs are struggling to adapt, in part because their architecture isn’t equipped to evolve. This webinar will discuss what’s at stake if companies continue to use long term architecture plans. How to address technical debt and retrofit existing systems to support better evolution.

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Legacy Architecture: How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Modernization Process

IT Toolbox

Organisations are now operating entire businesses in the cloud and benefiting from faster, more efficient, reliable, secure and scalable computing, but many with legacy architecture and code are finding themselves competing with businesses that have been ‘born in the cloud’ and lacking the agility of their competitors.

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Nvidia releases reference architectures for AI factories

Network World

The chipmaker has released a series of what it calls Enterprise Reference Architectures (Enterprise RA), which are blueprints to simplify the building of AI-oriented data centers. A reference architecture provides the full-stack hardware and software recommendations. However, there is another advantage, and that has to do with scale.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

Many do this by simply replicating their current architectures in the cloud. Those previous architectures, which were optimized for transactional systems, aren't well-suited for the new age of AI. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Take advantage of serverless application architecture.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

In this paper, we explore the top considerations for building a cloud data lake including architectural principles, when to use cloud data lake engines and how to empower non-technical users. Read this paper to learn about: The value of cloud data lakes as the new system of record.

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. In fact, the impact of software architecture parallels the impact of organizational structure. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success.

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems. Containers power many of the applications we use every day.

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Why Distributed Tracing is Essential for Performance and Reliability

Speaker: Daniel "spoons" Spoonhower, CTO and Co-Founder at Lightstep

Many engineering organizations have now adopted microservices or other loosely coupled architectures, often alongside DevOps practices. Understand a distributed system and improve communication among teams. Together these have enabled individual service teams to become more independent and, as a result, have boosted developer velocity.