WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

WHY IT MATTERS: a great reference to understand the basics of monitoring.

WHY IT MATTERS: a great tool comparison reference for monitoring tools.

https://www.metricfire.com/blog/category/comparisons/ 

WHY IT MATTERS: you don't see this often these days. A useful compilation of data lake reference architectures - of coursed biased by software vendor upsolver and AWS, but still very useful - with links to the original engineering blogs. Bravo!

WHY IT MATTERS: this is huge for inter-system operability and improved management and user experience. It is now possible to single sign-on between Azure and AWS cloud computing platforms. This is a big deal for us geeks... ;-)

WHY IT MATTERS: there are so many solutions you can leverage out there to build apps and solutions, why would anyone build their own?

WHY IT MATTERS: essential tools for any self-respecting geek. Easy to check this out, look in the extension toolbar of their chrome browser and you'll probably see BuiltWith... ;-)

WHY IT MATTERS: few lines of code is all you need to do things that were considered impossible 5 years ago. With this powerful tool at their finger, expect pretty every website and system to include face detection and other image processing features to be included in the coming years. But few developers will know about the limitations of the technology, especially the biais that may exist in the training data. As in this example, you realize that the "confidence" has not been used in the example, but yet it seems to be an essential information to interpret the results. There will be many many errors due to this in the coming years before the technology really is fool proof.

WHY IT MATTERS: microservice is a core architecture pattern in today's eCommerce and cloud environments. This overview provides some insights into the most well known companies that have deployed their microservice architecture at scale.

WHY IT MATTERS: choosing a web content management solution is a pain in the neck. This approach does away with that altogether and builds its own versions. Very useful to understand the limitations of commercial CMS solutions.

Also read: edit-publish separation by Martin Fowler

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EditingPublishingSeparation.html

WHY IT MATTERS: frameworks tools and technologies for machine learning have evolved very rapidly and play in big part in making AI a reality.

WHY IT MATTERS: visual pattern recognition using machine learning techniques is fast becoming a commodity with services like this one. It allows developers to deploy pre-trained solutions for image analysis. Not sure it is the best model or the perfect solution but it does lower the barrier of entry for most developers in the field.

WHY IT MATTERS: product selection is very complex these days and should never be done only on the basis of a list of features but rather based on a carefully crafted set of business use cases that represent your specific business realities including processes, technologies and customer requests. This article provides an example of such use cases in the context of CDP product selection.

WHY IT MATTERS: this is part of a short series on evolutionary architectures which discuss new approaches regarding software architecture that integrate the concept of architecture validation during the build and deployment process, much akin to what is being done with TDD to validate the functional requirements are met. This remains complex to implement IMHO but nevertheless has the merit to address a real problem with architecture, that is their lack of enforcement. Geeks, read it! Others, well, you might find this a bit obtuse... ;-)

WHY IT MATTERS: machine learning is based on mathematics and computer science. Here are cheat sheets to help guide students - but in reality they are good for everybody. Also look on github for translations in multiple languages...

WHY IT MATTERS: this library of papers and technical documents on CDPs will provide a starting point if you want to know more on the matter.

Head over to CDP institute for more: www.cdpinstitute.org 

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Good tools are essential to be at your best. I find this list useful, along with the tool roundup the company provides at regular intervals: http://www.stacklist.com/articles/new-tools-roundup-13/ 

I wrote about the betapage.co tool roundup in the past, a similar reference: http://sco.lt/73Og3F 

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github is a software engineering tool for software version control that has been leveraged for large open source projects. It has also been used to co-edit documents with a high level of version control and large population of authors. I wanted to share this - along with previous posts on software engineering blogs and 2 factor authentication support - as a great example of how digital can help transform the way people work. Unfortunately I find that organizations have yet to become aware of this great tool, maybe because it is a little bit too geeky for non technical employees.

What do you think? Are there more user friendly tools like this?

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Another look into new web and mobile CMS solutions.