Catchy bold statement out of the way first. After years in the business, I can claim I can spot the IT system problem, in your company, easily. Whenever meeting some IT company people , I ask very early for the IT Landscape diagram. Hence the garden analogy. Continue reading
This might be a good analogy: CTO is a landscape artist. There is this rather lovey named discipline called: Landscape architecture. Thus CTO might be seen as an artist of his organization’s IT landscape. Among other duties, forever pruning and grafting and taking out the IT weed. And that garden grows (weed including), 24 x 7, 365 days per year. Continue reading
Many times I have confidently started from this simple, effective, and resilient Technical Architecture (TA) for a production-ready, minimal cluster of servers. Most often acting as a server-side to some Web Applications.
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From the hardware to the front. With your responsibility to choose the right kind of everything? Continue reading