Thinking of AI, LLMs and Gen-AI
Like most folks on the planet right now, AIs have been one of my major areas of interest and attention; at least in the last two years. Yes, I caught…
ChatGPT Prompting for Architects and Executives
Introduction In chapter six of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," under a section, titled "Pig and Pepper.", the following dialogue plays out: Alice: Would you tell me, please, which…
Cloud Migration and Availability Index
The Cloud Transition The Cloud may not be in-your-face. But it is pervasive, and gradually taking over many aspects of our traditional IT systems. Companies are not yet making wholesale…
Securing our Hybrid Cloud
In a previous article, "One thousand servers, start with one click", I described the design and implementation of a simple hybrid-Cloud infrastructure. The view was from a high level, and…
A Simple DevOps Chain
A Pipeline of Tasks Illustrating a Simple DevOps Chain DevOps is the amalgalm of development activities and the business continuity provided by operations teams. It unites the efforts of what…
Impressive Amazon Web Services: First Glance
Amazon Web Services: Background Amazon Web Services (AWS) have revolutionised the way we view IT provisioning. AWS makes so many things easier, and often cheaper too. The benefits scale from…
Oracle BPEL Subprocess
There are quite a few new features in Oracle BPEL 12c and here is one that I really like; the BPEL subprocess - a task/algorithm that is an association (not…
Factory Approach to Service Engineering
Rhema Bytes: A Factory Approach to Service Engineering When most people think of a factory, the imagery that is conjured is one of mindless repetition, and the generation of large…