Most of us, when getting into the public cloud world, the first action we do is to create a new VM. Creating a VM is the “Hello World” of the cloud industry, and is considered a must-have knowledge for any self proclaimed cloud expert. However, it turns out that creating a VM is far from […]
Software Security is one of the hottest topics in the industry right now. Some famous security incidents, like the DDoS attack that took down Dyn’s DNS servers and brought 25% of the internet traffic to a halt, or the Equifax huge data leak, demonstrated the importance of a secure software. You, as a Software Architect, […]
Software Architects have one of the most challenging and rewarding jobs in the industry. Great salary, working with management, dealing with the up-to-date technologies and patterns, working with variety of projects and teams – all these make the Software Architect one of the most desired positions in the software industry. Becoming a Software Architect is not […]
One of the roles I see more and more in recent years is the Cloud Architect. This role is used by architects who deal mainly with cloud-based systems, as opposed to on-prem ones. Since I myself work on a lot of cloud systems, I was trying to define for myself what is the real difference […]
Where Are We Now? Micro Services are all the rage right now. Everywhere I go, every architectural discussion I’m taking part in, every conference I’m registering, is flooded with Micro Services. “How to migrate your monolith (read: pathetically old and outdated) application to a Micro Services architecture?” “Kubernetes vs Mesos vs Consul – Let the […]
I just got off the phone with one of my colleagues, and we had an interesting discussion about a situation we have with one of our clients. Here is the situation: Our customer had, for years, a software that was installed as a standalone product. It was a single machine that had the application (.NET […]
One of the first stages of designing architecture for a system, is the Non-Functional requirements gathering. This stage usually goes like this: MEMI: So, what are the most important non-functional requirements? CUSTOMER: … What are non-functional requirements? M: Well, you know, all the requirements that are not related directly to the system’s functionality, such as […]
I’m a software architect, and also a sci-fi fan. Something tells me I’m not the only one who possesses those two qualities. As such, many times when I watch some of the latest sci-fi TV series or movies, in which the evil aliens pay us a visit and want to kill us all, and ultimately […]
(See what I did here in the title? Of course you did. If not, take a look here) One of the question I’m often asked is this: “How to become an architect?” Or, in some other forms: “Is Some Name a real architect?” “What makes a good architect?” So I was thinking – what the hell! Let’s spill […]