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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 on late. But it was not for want of trying. It was just that the first wave of AIs, were too low-level for me. The…
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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 way I ought to go from here?The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.Alice: I don’t much care…
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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 transitions from existing data-centres and on-premise assets to Cloud. However, when infrastructure reviews occur, whether to upgrade or add new resources, the Cloud beckons. Questions…
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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 I intend, God willing, to delve into the detail in a later instalment. Before that though, I wanted to touch on the subject of hybrid…
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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 are still two teams, with different competencies, into one value chain. DevOps creates and sustains a unified process for transforming technical requirements into live code…
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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 the SME right up to corporates; no segment is left out. Complexity is abstracted away, and with a little effort, large and/or complex systems can…
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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 composition) of an activity/process. The concept has been around for decades and it has featured in process diagrams and BPMN notation for quite a while,…
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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 numbers of low-value items. A good example is a nut & bolt factory. In this world, value accrues to the investors from the little profit…