In my previous post on Open Digital Platforms, I introduced the five domains of strategy that Digital Transformation is changing, I looked at how developing digital platforms can lead to significant competitive advantage. In this post, I focus on the data domain and look at the role of Artificial Intelligence …

Digital Transformation is a term that’s become almost as ubiquitous as Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what does it actually mean?, how is it related to a digital platform and how does the openness of a platform influence its successfulness.

In his book, The Digital Transformation Playbook, David …

Today, most organisations have significant internal datasets and digital services. These resources have the potential to be converted into new revenue streams by securely exposing them to customers and partners as web services. The availability of a number of open source web service frameworks, has meant that it has never …

In this article we take a look at some of the announcements from Docker con 2015 and reflect on what it means for container orchestration in the Enterprise.

Summary: In this article, I provide a brief update on the development of content for the Resources and Design Principles chapters in the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past week I've been working on the following chapters of the O'Reilly training series:

• Resources …

Summary: In this article, I provide a brief update on development of the Platform chapters of the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past three weeks I've been working on the following platform related chapters of the O'Reilly training series:

• Platform - Availability
• Platform - Design …

Summary: In this article, I provide a update on development of the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past few weeks, I've been busy developing and recording content for O'Reilly Media as part of the up and coming series, "Architecting for the AWS Platform …

Summary: In this article we look at how Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) can be used to orchestrate the cross region deployment of RDS resources.

Recently, I have been investigating highly available (multi-AZ) cross-region configurations of RDS. The RDS API makes the task quite simple. It’s little more than:

master_db …

In this article I introduce a case study I wrote with John Painter of Sourced Group. The case study presents a blueprint for a Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) for Enterprise organisations and will feature in the book, "DevOps, A Software Architect's Perspective", scheduled for release in the first half of next year.

Last week, Google announced significant price reductions for their cloud storage service, Google Drive. This is of course great news for consumers; you can now store 1TB of data for $9.99 per month. This is approximately the same cost of storing 1TB of data on Amazon Glacier. While both …