The newbie cloud architect diary

Review of  Susan Cain's  book Quiet, with own additions such as my personal story and level of maturity around introversion and extroversion at work. The weekly mood Unexpectedly, I've been able to catch up with a couple of project tasks left behind during the past few weeks, and even found the time to look a bit outside the box. In his talk  and  articles  called The Architect Elevator , Gregor Hohpe defines the Architect person as a special "Animal", and the Architect role as a "Connector". The latest is not a surprising term from one of the fathers of  Enterprise Integration Patterns  (EIP). However, I find the first one intriging because it conveys that Architects belongs to a minority of people who might not allways be well accepted or understood. I recently read  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking , a very popular  Essay  by Susan Cain (2012). Although I am not used to making book reviews, I...

As trend monitoring and networking increasingly happens online, IT professionals need methodology for attending Meetups, Webinars or Conferences. The weekly mood Two weeks ago I spontaneously registered to the  ApacheCon  for free, the yearly rendezvous of the  Apache Software Foundation  (ASF) with Open-Source enthusiasts. ApacheCon is not a conference like others. Indeed, its content is not addressed to potential Software Buyers, therefore owned and influenced by  Marketers . Instead, it is addressed to enthusiastic Contributors and Users of a Developer community, owned and produced by  Members  of a  Project Management Commitee  (PMC). They are not  selling their  product but sharing their concept and vision .  The ASF probably hosts the largest base of software projects , including  httpd  which is the most used web server according to W3Tech . The ASF is also characterized by open-source terms ( Apache ...