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Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture is also available as an iBook. The price depends on where you are, as iBooks prices are inclusive of tax. However, the book has been priced at roughly two thirds of the paperback…
Read More Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture now available as iBook
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few…
I came across the following post on LinkedIn Pulse: The 5 Resource Bottle Necks In Big Data, Including The Intangible 5th. I think this post is important for all the programmers, software designers and architects that are so infatuated with battling…
http://masteringarchimate.com has passed the 200,000 view mark during my vacation. I started this blog in 2011. In June 2014 it passed the 100,000 view mark. It took 14 months to get the next 100,000 views. That is a milestone I wanted…
Read More Another milestone: 200,000 views for the Mastering #ArchiMate blog
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As the shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a…
A short one today. I have a view taken from a certain book. The view contains an error, can you spot it? And when you have spotted it, go to the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification and can you tell me what…
Just a short mention here: I've just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a scenario…
Read More New EAPJ blog post: Reverse Cloud (with two ArchiMate pictures)
Just a short mention here: I've just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a…
Suppose you are in a meeting. You, the Enterprise Architect of the EA Chess kind. You are aware of many complexities, uncertainties, hair-ball like integrations and other 'technical debt' in your landscape, and you don't have the habit of underestimating…
In the previous post, Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns, I discussed the creation of reusable patterns to more effectively model large homogenous parts of the infrastructure landscape, or in other words: if you have 1000 identical RHEL servers, modelling the structure of…
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