The newbie cloud architect diary

In this 2nd post dedicated to API Architecture re-design, we show how the API Life-cycle and Developer Portal can support your API Management strategy. The weekly mood My first quarter as a full-time Architect ends in 3 weeks. I realize that even if I had defined some goals, path and methodology during my first week, I had built no 30-60-90-day plan to build the ground for a successful job or career. I know about that magic number of 100 days when people start to wonder if their new CEO or VP delivered as promised, and I assume this happens also to employees. But the most important to me was to do the right think rather than to secure quick wins. After ramping-up in the area of DevOps and working a bit on our Data Engineering, I am now committed to our API Architecture re-design. In a previous post , we focused on the following 2 building-blocks: API Development : We emphasized on OpenAPI Specification v3 (OAS3) as a Contract-First development approach, implemented a Microservice u...

Machine Learning (ML) Deployment is one of the dark sides of both Data Science and Data Engineering. Mmanaged services like Databricks might help. The daily mood As already mentioned in a previous post , I have the privilege to shadow a starting Data lake project . The team already prepared data and built a first Machine Learning (ML) model for a specific use-case.  They are currently in the process of deploying the  scoring application and find this quite challenging. We are going to discuss why it is difficult, and of course how technology and automation may help. Big Data & ML adoption In 2009, the Knowledge Discovery in Data Minining (KDD) conference became a competition (KDD Cup) which reached the IT world with a  disrupting report  of lessons learnt in large scale ML projects. The industry just started to realize the rize of Big Data (ex. IoT) and the potential of ML for Business. In the following years,  Business Intelligence  (BI) organizati...

Evaluation of GitHub Actions as the potential alternative (replacement or complement) to Jenkins for Continuous Integration (CI) in our organization. The daily mood Beside spending time reporting on my activities, I have the opportunity to backup one of our team lead with mentoring a student for about one month. He has already worked in part-time for about 3 years in our organisation, as a Java developer. He is now looking for a short engagement within the architecture team.  We agreed on the goal to create a document that is collecting all required informations around GitHub, and eventually run a small PoC/showcase. Git Git is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development. It was crated by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel. It is a free software under GNU license. There are Git clients available for my different OS and code editors. And like for HTTP server there are tons of hosting providers and dist...