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Software Architect Role, Skills, and Impact on Product Success

Altexsoft

There are dozens of definitions for a software or technical architect, but in most general terms a person holding this position drives all critical decisions about the organization of the software system. This tech leader makes sure that a systems architecture used by a company supports its strategy and helps in achieving business goals.

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Tips for designing distributed systems

CircleCI

We met this challenge with advancements in network computing like remote procedure calls over network protocols: Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Users were deploying applications on many different operating systems, hardware platforms, and network protocols. However, environmental constraints arose.

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Official Intelligence

LeanEssays

A Killer App for IoT When devices are scattered throughout a physical space, controlling them by voice is a killer app for the Internet of Things [1] – but only if a simple control standard is embedded in every device. Amazon’s Echo has a different focus: always-on listening and hands-free control of an exploding array of internet devices.

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Migrating a 100K requests-per-minute production from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to ECS

ProdOps

The very successful startup based in NYC and TLV is backing some of the busiest media providers’ conversation platforms on the internet. In system architecture, like in application development; knowing a component is production ready can only be done with the help of tests. is one of the earliest clients on our portfolio.

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15 Books by leading software architects

Apiumhub

Distinct from the details of implementation, algorithm, and data representation, an architecture holds the key to achieving system quality, is a reusable asset that can be applied to subsequent systems, and is crucial to a software organization’s business strategy. . The DevOps 2.5

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

The Internet has been open to public for six years. The democratization of programming arrived with the public Internet in 1991, and within a decade it became clear that the old model for developing software was obsolete. Linux is six years old. Amazon is three. Google doesn’t exist. The dotcom bubble hasn’t happened.