This presentation provides a high-level overview for the practice of IT Architecture in today's enterprise. It is the first in several IT Architecture presentations we will be providing.
The challenge of alignment, integration and change in the development of e-services has gave attention to enterprise architecture. It provide the framework of engagement and thinking tool to define, elaborate, document, agree and communicate the strategic baseline, strategic intent, strategic architecture, strategic change and strategic resources in the development and improvement of e-services within the defined context and perspectives of time, stakeholders, performance, funds, environment, leadership and technology. The shared open presentation is a product of direct engagement with people of decision and work who are enabled to participate the formulation of enterprise architecture that matters to their performance.
Continuous Delivery of Agile ArchitectureBrad Appleton
by Brad Appleton, APLN Chicago 2018 Conference, April 2018,
Agile Development & DevOps have necessitated revisititing how architecture changes over time: collaboration, design thinking, technical debt, emergent design, evolutionary architecture, agile infrastructure, and continuous delivery have all played a key role in how we can integrate architecture into agile delivery methods.
This presentation explores proven ways to continuously plan, build & evolve software architectures to support continual change as part of the continuous value-delivery pipeline.
Enterprise Architecture, SOA, and their relationships
Apply SOA to Enterprise Architecture – Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture
Service Oriented Enterprise
Service Oriented Applications and Systems
Service Oriented Infrastructure
The challenge of alignment, integration and change in the development of e-services has gave attention to enterprise architecture. It provide the framework of engagement and thinking tool to define, elaborate, document, agree and communicate the strategic baseline, strategic intent, strategic architecture, strategic change and strategic resources in the development and improvement of e-services within the defined context and perspectives of time, stakeholders, performance, funds, environment, leadership and technology. The shared open presentation is a product of direct engagement with people of decision and work who are enabled to participate the formulation of enterprise architecture that matters to their performance.
Continuous Delivery of Agile ArchitectureBrad Appleton
by Brad Appleton, APLN Chicago 2018 Conference, April 2018,
Agile Development & DevOps have necessitated revisititing how architecture changes over time: collaboration, design thinking, technical debt, emergent design, evolutionary architecture, agile infrastructure, and continuous delivery have all played a key role in how we can integrate architecture into agile delivery methods.
This presentation explores proven ways to continuously plan, build & evolve software architectures to support continual change as part of the continuous value-delivery pipeline.
Enterprise Architecture, SOA, and their relationships
Apply SOA to Enterprise Architecture – Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture
Service Oriented Enterprise
Service Oriented Applications and Systems
Service Oriented Infrastructure
During last few years, role of Enterprise Architecture has expanded from technical to strategic in an Organization. This slide deck presents: Using Enterprise Architecture in your Organization.
This presentation provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. It is presented by the Semantech Inc. Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence. The purpose of the briefing is to provide a better understanding of how Frameworks are used in the practice of EA.
Architecture Board & Governance- Key to Running IT as Business. Aligning Business Strategy with IT. Agenda. Goals & Objectives; Enterprise Architect Role ...
There are many companies and professionals that seem to make Enterprise Architecture some sort unnecessarily complicated black art, but in reality it's actually quite simple at its core. Here's a methodology I developed that approaches EA with a simpler approach.
Your Challenge:
At every organization, every day, employees at various levels make decisions on how IT is used in building, transforming, and operating the enterprise.
These decisions affect enterprise performance, both short and long term.
Our Advice:
Critical Insight
IT policies assign authority and accountability for making key IT decisions and outline mandatory process steps, but don’t say what should guide the decision-making process.
Naturally, employees in different departments and at different levels have different, often competing priorities.
Moreover, employees tend to make decisions leaning on their own assumptions as to how IT should be used by the organization. IT decisions, guided by foundational beliefs that differ, lack cohesiveness in achieving enterprise goals and require an increased IT governance effort to achieve policy compliance and realize desired business outcomes.
Impact and Result
EA principles succinctly communicate the organization’s intent as to the use of IT in building, transforming, and operating the enterprise and provide a foundation of shared beliefs that guide IT decision making across the organization.
EA principles represent a key component of IT governance and should guide the development of domain-specific policies (e.g. security policy, procurement policy) that elaborate on particular implications of principles in specific process areas.
Presenter: Pawel Chadzynski, Aras
To deal with growing product complexity and tie requirements through functional, logical and physical product structure (RFLP), organizations are moving to implement Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). Learn how to take the "BS" out of MBSE and provide a foundation for tomorrow's product development processes.
Digital Transformation And Solution ArchitectureAlan McSweeney
Digital strategy is a statement about the organisation’s digital positioning, competitors and customer and collaborator needs and behaviour to achieve a direction for innovation, communication, transaction and promotion. Digital strategy needs to be defined in the same framework structure as the proposed digital architecture platform.
Achieving the target digital organisation means deploying solutions that enable the digital architecture. Solution architecture needs to design solutions that fit into the target digital architecture framework. This requires:
• Solution architecture team operating in an integrated manner designing solutions to a set of common standards and that run on the platform
• Solution architecture team leadership ensuring solutions conform to the common standards
• Solution architecture technical leadership to develop and maintain common solution design standards
• Solution architecture updates the digital reference architecture based on solution design experience
Digital solution design requires greater discipline to create an integrated set solutions that operate within the rigour of the digital architecture framework. The solution architecture function must interact with other IT architecture disciplines to ensure the set of solutions that implement the digital framework operate together. This requires greater solution architecture team leadership. This needs to be supplemented and supported by a well-defined set of digital solution design standards.
This follows-on from the previous presentation: Digital Transformation And Enterprise Architecture
https://www.slideshare.net/alanmcsweeney/digital-transformation-and-enterprise-architecture.
Introduction to Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF 9.1iasaglobal
Santos Pardos nos dará una visión general a TOGAF. Durante 2 horas, Santos nos introducirá al mundo de The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), ese marco de trabajo de Arquitectura Empresarial que muchos escuchamos hablar. Nos contará el enfoque propuesto para el diseño, planificación, implementación y gobierno de una arquitectura empresarial de información. También repasará, a alto nivel, cuatro niveles o dimensiones: Arquitectura de Negocios Arquitectura de Aplicaciones Arquitectura Tecnológica Arquitectura de Dat
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) I Best Practices I NuggetHubRichardNowack
Enterprise architecture management is a "management practice that establishes, maintains and uses a coherent set of guidelines, architecture principles and governance regimes that provide direction and practical help in the design and development of an enterprise's architecture to achieve its vision and strategy. In this business best practice slide deck you learn how to assess and setup Enterprise Architecture and Digital Architecture frameworks as well as a transformation plan.
We provide you with the following best practices:
- Need for Enterprise Architecture Management
- Enterprise Architecture Approach
- Architecture Target Picture Development
- Implementation Roadmap
This presentation is about a lecture I gave within the "Software systems and services" immigration course at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy): http://cs.gssi.infn.it/.
http://www.ivanomalavolta.com
This presentation introduces Semantech Inc's InnovationWorx practice. The practice focuses on developing Continuous Innovation processes for global organizations as well as in developing sophisticated strategies across a variety of industries and problem domains.
During last few years, role of Enterprise Architecture has expanded from technical to strategic in an Organization. This slide deck presents: Using Enterprise Architecture in your Organization.
This presentation provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. It is presented by the Semantech Inc. Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence. The purpose of the briefing is to provide a better understanding of how Frameworks are used in the practice of EA.
Architecture Board & Governance- Key to Running IT as Business. Aligning Business Strategy with IT. Agenda. Goals & Objectives; Enterprise Architect Role ...
There are many companies and professionals that seem to make Enterprise Architecture some sort unnecessarily complicated black art, but in reality it's actually quite simple at its core. Here's a methodology I developed that approaches EA with a simpler approach.
Your Challenge:
At every organization, every day, employees at various levels make decisions on how IT is used in building, transforming, and operating the enterprise.
These decisions affect enterprise performance, both short and long term.
Our Advice:
Critical Insight
IT policies assign authority and accountability for making key IT decisions and outline mandatory process steps, but don’t say what should guide the decision-making process.
Naturally, employees in different departments and at different levels have different, often competing priorities.
Moreover, employees tend to make decisions leaning on their own assumptions as to how IT should be used by the organization. IT decisions, guided by foundational beliefs that differ, lack cohesiveness in achieving enterprise goals and require an increased IT governance effort to achieve policy compliance and realize desired business outcomes.
Impact and Result
EA principles succinctly communicate the organization’s intent as to the use of IT in building, transforming, and operating the enterprise and provide a foundation of shared beliefs that guide IT decision making across the organization.
EA principles represent a key component of IT governance and should guide the development of domain-specific policies (e.g. security policy, procurement policy) that elaborate on particular implications of principles in specific process areas.
Presenter: Pawel Chadzynski, Aras
To deal with growing product complexity and tie requirements through functional, logical and physical product structure (RFLP), organizations are moving to implement Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). Learn how to take the "BS" out of MBSE and provide a foundation for tomorrow's product development processes.
Digital Transformation And Solution ArchitectureAlan McSweeney
Digital strategy is a statement about the organisation’s digital positioning, competitors and customer and collaborator needs and behaviour to achieve a direction for innovation, communication, transaction and promotion. Digital strategy needs to be defined in the same framework structure as the proposed digital architecture platform.
Achieving the target digital organisation means deploying solutions that enable the digital architecture. Solution architecture needs to design solutions that fit into the target digital architecture framework. This requires:
• Solution architecture team operating in an integrated manner designing solutions to a set of common standards and that run on the platform
• Solution architecture team leadership ensuring solutions conform to the common standards
• Solution architecture technical leadership to develop and maintain common solution design standards
• Solution architecture updates the digital reference architecture based on solution design experience
Digital solution design requires greater discipline to create an integrated set solutions that operate within the rigour of the digital architecture framework. The solution architecture function must interact with other IT architecture disciplines to ensure the set of solutions that implement the digital framework operate together. This requires greater solution architecture team leadership. This needs to be supplemented and supported by a well-defined set of digital solution design standards.
This follows-on from the previous presentation: Digital Transformation And Enterprise Architecture
https://www.slideshare.net/alanmcsweeney/digital-transformation-and-enterprise-architecture.
Introduction to Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF 9.1iasaglobal
Santos Pardos nos dará una visión general a TOGAF. Durante 2 horas, Santos nos introducirá al mundo de The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), ese marco de trabajo de Arquitectura Empresarial que muchos escuchamos hablar. Nos contará el enfoque propuesto para el diseño, planificación, implementación y gobierno de una arquitectura empresarial de información. También repasará, a alto nivel, cuatro niveles o dimensiones: Arquitectura de Negocios Arquitectura de Aplicaciones Arquitectura Tecnológica Arquitectura de Dat
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) I Best Practices I NuggetHubRichardNowack
Enterprise architecture management is a "management practice that establishes, maintains and uses a coherent set of guidelines, architecture principles and governance regimes that provide direction and practical help in the design and development of an enterprise's architecture to achieve its vision and strategy. In this business best practice slide deck you learn how to assess and setup Enterprise Architecture and Digital Architecture frameworks as well as a transformation plan.
We provide you with the following best practices:
- Need for Enterprise Architecture Management
- Enterprise Architecture Approach
- Architecture Target Picture Development
- Implementation Roadmap
This presentation is about a lecture I gave within the "Software systems and services" immigration course at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy): http://cs.gssi.infn.it/.
http://www.ivanomalavolta.com
This presentation introduces Semantech Inc's InnovationWorx practice. The practice focuses on developing Continuous Innovation processes for global organizations as well as in developing sophisticated strategies across a variety of industries and problem domains.
This presentation highlights a recent project undertaken by our InnovationWorx group - the goal of the project was to enhance current Trade Mission capabilities by adding virtual elements...
This presentation highlights Semantech Inc.'s corporate capabilities for 2011. Our company is a Small Woman-Owned, Minority-Owned business that provides innovative solutions for Strategy, Enterprise IT and Cyber Security. We are located in Dayton, Ohio.
This presentation is an executive overview of Semantech Inc's corporate capabilities. These capabilities include; InnovationWorx, Enterprise IT Capabilities and the Semantech Cyber Security Practice.
Computer Security Lecture 4.1: DES Supplementary MaterialMohamed Loey
We will discuss the following: Data Encryption Standard, DES Algorithm, DES Key Creation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-lF4dePpts&list=PLKYmvyjH53q13_6aS4VwgXU0Nb_4sjwuf
https://mloey.github.io/courses/security2017.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td_8AM80DUA&list=PLKYmvyjH53q13_6aS4VwgXU0Nb_4sjwuf&index=2&t=37s
We will discuss the following: Symmetric Encryption, Substitution Techniques, Caesar Cipher, Monoalphabetic Cipher, Playfair Cipher, Hill Cipher
https://mloey.github.io/courses/security2017.html
We will discuss the following: Cryptography, Computer Security, OSI Security Architecture, Security Structure Scheme, Key Properties, Symmetric Encryption, Asymmetric Encryption, finally Our Book
Are You an Accidental or Intentional Architect?iasaglobal
The first step in preparing for capability on demand is to set up for capacity on demand, but this can only occur after a CIO gets the IT house in order operationally. An IT organization that cannot manage operations effectively because it lacks understanding of costs relating to business performance and outcomes will have trouble evaluating the price-for-performance trade-offs offered by external suppliers.
Building the Architecture for Analytic CompetitionWilliam McKnight
Lost amid the conversation on big data and the accelerating advancement of just about every aspect of enterprise software that manages information are the things that hold it all together. Yet this is critical: information-management components must come together in a meaningful fashion or there will be unneeded redundancy and waste and opportunities missed. Considering that optimizing the information asset goes directly to the organization’s bottom line, it behooves us to play an exceptional game— not a haphazard one—with our technology building blocks.
This presentation introduces a revolutionary new approach for the provision and management of Enterprise Architecture (EA). It provides an affordable path to achieve architecture and governance alignment...
The success of any transformation efforts depending on the best practices followed over the transformation and beyond. Enterprise Architecture practice helps to execute the transformation efforts seamlessly. This presentation discover more details.
Master Plan and Notional Target ArchitectureJohn Wu
Master plan and notional Target Architecture inherit the top down and vertical architecture theory from traditional architecture development method. It is the first architecture theory among the Light Enterprise Architecture concept of vertical, horizontal and circular architecture theory.
LEA takes the light approach to conduct master plan and the notional target architecture because it is futile to design a frozen blueprint in an organic enterprise.
LEA adopt the ideal of master planning comes from city planning. Master plan and notional target architecture represent the construct and the notion of enterprise target architect. However, it serve as the mean of Enterprise Architecture rather than the end. EA is not only about drawing some high level architecture drawings. It is long term guideline not only for the enterprise mechanical architecture but also used to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing.
It is intended for both business and engineering community. It shows how business take advantage of different resources which include not only IT but also human and financial resources. It is not intended as the guideline on how to design or create these resources. EA should not be confused as the enterprise wide solution architecture.
Master plan and notional architecture is delivered in architecture drawing sets and spread sheet for the purpose of intuitive and comprehension by the business community. The notional architecture drawing is not as rigid a the engineering blueprint, It is flexible and creative.
Similar to Semantech: IT Architecture in the Enterprise (20)
Redefining Politics 2 - A New Political OntologyStephen Lahanas
This presentation introduces a new framework for organizing political practice and knowledge through exploitation of a common meta-ontology.
This presentation is brought to you as part of Semantech's InnovatioWorx applied innovation series.
This presentation (part of Semantech InnovationWorx's Redefining IT series) explores what the next generation of Content Management and Search Engines will look like and what we need to do to reach intelligent computing...
This presentation, part of our Redefining the IT Lexicon (applied innovation series), introduces a new term related to the field of Semantic technology. That term is Semantic Intelligence. This briefing was provided by Semantech's InnovationWorx division.
This presentation is an exploration of what Information Technology will look like in 2021. We have spread our predictions across three categories: IT Trends, IT Practice and Impacts on Everyday Life.
Innovation as Problem Solving: Managing Problem SpacesStephen Lahanas
This presentation provides an overview of how Problem Solving and Innovation can be enhanced through the exploitation of Problem Space Management. This presentation is one of a series of briefs highlighting aspects of our InnovationWorx practice.
This presentation is meant to provide an overview of Applied Innovation in the arena of political practice. This first presentation in the Redefining Politics series will examine what Themes are and how they relate to the larger context of political or policy management.
This presentation provides an overview regarding a new paradigm for managing systems integration and enterprise IT capability - Semantic Systems Integration (SSI).
This presentation provides a high-level introduction to Semantech's Global AIM Reference Model / Architecture Initiative. Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) is the data architecture underpinning civil aviation across the globe. Semantech Inc. is a world leader in providing sophisticated architecture solutions.
This presentation is an overview of a new and comprehensive enterprise integration practice based upon SOA... Services Oriented Integration extends SOA to cover what's necessary to ensure SOA actually works.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
2. 2
There is still a lot of confusion in the IT industry
surrounding precisely what the term “Architecture”
represents. In the last 10 years, the practice of
Architecture in IT has expanded enormously, both in
scope and complexity.
This presentation is meant to provide a high-level
overview to what IT Architecture represents today as
well as what it will likely represent over the next
decade. Follow-on presentations will explore each of
the major subtopics illustrated in this briefing in
greater depth.
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Introduction
3. 15 years IT Architecture experience
15 years IT Architecture experience
3
Stephen Lahanas
IT Architect / Semantech CIO
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Your Presenter
I bring over 14 years of IT Architecture
experience to this discussion in both
Government and Commercial domains.
• Lead Architect – on multiple enterprise level initiatives
• Data Architect – for Toyota North America, FAA & USAF
• Security Architect – for USAF, USCG, US Army Netcom,
AstraZeneca
• Cloud Architect – for NTT DATA / State Farm
• Solution Architect – Kroger, Healthways
• Chief Engineer – USAF Logistics & Finance
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Just as the term “Big Data” no longer references a
single technology, “Architecture” in IT has also
diversified greatly in recent years. Rather than being
one thing, it now represents an umbrella term used to
classify a wide set of related practice. A new
definition is required…
IT Architecture: represents the full spectrum of IT
design and Architecture disciplines. In other words,
any activity in IT that requires accurate
characterization through illustration or notation during
a design lifecycle phase regardless of technology or
technique qualifies as IT architecture.
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IT Architecture Defined
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A Taxonomy is merely a way to organize information
– but then again so is an Architecture or Data Model.
For this discussion, The IT Architecture Taxonomy
provides us with a quick way to accurately visualize
and classify related Architecture practice.
An important part of the Taxonomy is represented on
the left side of the mind map on the following slide.
The left side helps to illustrate that there are common
tools and techniques that support all the many
subdivisions of IT Architecture. It is also worth noting
that use of Taxonomy is itself one of the practice
areas also (Semantic Architecture).
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What the Taxonomy Provides
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The IT Architecture Taxonomy
Level 2 – Solution Architecture
Level 3 – Infrastructure Architecture
Level 1 – Enterprise Architecture
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Exploiting Taxonomy
Taxonomy (as part of
Semantic Architecture) is
often utilized to provide a
foundation for all other
Architectures (both for
activities and deliverables).
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Understanding EA
Many if not most people associate IT Architecture
with Enterprise Architecture (EA). The reason for this
is two-fold:
1. Enterprise Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF
and DODAF are well defined and have been
around for more than a decade now.
2. EA has been mandated in many organizations for
many years now – especially in the Federal
sector. Many organizations are forced to use it.
The mission for EA is more expansive than most other
forms of IT Architecture. It is often exercised in
coordination with IT Planning & Governance.
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Frameworks: FEAF
FEAF or the Federal
Architecture Framework,
provides high-level
Reference Architectures
for government IT
programs and capability.
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EA Frameworks
An EA Framework is a meta-model, but it is one that
is generally designed to support automated
metadata capture and management. This means
that tools such as EA Repositories can be used to
document and manage EA design deliverables.
Many EA tools available today can support multiple
frameworks or meta-models. At its most basic level,
an EA Framework is a descriptive template to allow
for rapid characterization of IT capability. Each
organization using the Framework is expected to fill
in the detail and customize as necessary but there
still remains some standardization across industry.
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Frameworks: DODAF
DODAF or the
Department of Defense
Architecture Framework,
is much more extensive
and detailed than the
FEAF. They are often
used in conjunction with
one another.
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Frameworks: TOGAF
Just as with DODAF, TOGAF boasts
several dozen views or artifacts. There
is quite a bit of latitude as to how
these artifacts can be produced. One
of the key activities whenever
exploiting an EA framework is
mapping Framework views to the
exact formats which will be used to
express those views.
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EA & Solution Architecture
Ultimately, the Enterprise Architecture is not
expected to capture implementation specific
details. That’s where Solution Architecture comes
in. However, the lines often blur in regards to
where EA stops and Solution Architecture begins.
One thing that is certain though is that the Solution
must map to the EA.
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What is Solution Architecture?
While EA may be better known, the vast majority of
IT Architects work with Solution Architecture. This
only makes sense given that most design work tends
to be done at the detail level.
Where Solution Architecture often gets murky is in
determining whether one type of Solution Architect
can in fact perform other types of Solution
Architecture tasks. For example, it may not be
common for a Data Architect to work as a Security
Architect or perhaps even a Big Data Architect to
work with other data technologies, such as ETL or
Data Warehouses.
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IT Architects
An IT Architect represents the
standardization of
Architecture practice in so
much as it is expected that
they can jump from one
solution area to another – or
even to EA. IT Architects often
combine various types of
Architecture in their work
(such as process and system
level design).
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Digital Experience Architecture
Many people confuse
UI/UX design and Digital
Experience Architecture
– the latter involves all
user-facing system
elements including
Mobile and Social Media
elements.
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Specialized Solution Architecture
Many people who work as
Architects today are in fact
only qualified to support
one specific technology –
usually some commercial
software package.
It is questionable whether
these folks are in fact IT
Architects unless they are
using standard tools and
techniques to support
design for that single
technology.
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Cyber Security Architecture
While Identity
Management is an
important part of typical
Security Architectures, it
only represents a small
portion of the overall
Cyber Security picture.
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Data Architecture
Perhaps the single most
important subdivision
within Solution
Architecture is Data
Architecture. Evidence
for this conclusion is
found in the rapidly
growing demand for
Data Architects.
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What IT Architects Do
In top ten list format, IT Architects:
1. Solve problems, at both targeted and enterprise scale.
2. Provide the vision, provide the foundation.
3. Coordinate disparate information and capability.
4. Communicate expectations and facilitate collaboration.
5. Design the high level view.
6. Design the detailed view.
7. Create the Roadmaps, and provide the Governance
framework.
8. Support the entire solution lifecycle.
9. Identify both risks and opportunities.
10. Help to standardization the enterprise and related
enterprises across industry.
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Modeling is Architecture
Data Modeling is not
Modeling, it is a form of Data
Architecture. All IT Modeling
activities are in fact forms of IT
Architecture.
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IT Architecture & Patterns
All types of IT Architecture can
represent Patterns – when
patterns are grouped together you
create “Reference Architectures.”
Reference Architectures can exist
at both the Enterprise and Solution
level.
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Architecture & Governance
IT Architects often use
“Roadmaps” to illustrate
the relationship between
capability and projects /
programs. Architects are
uniquely qualified to
perform this and other
Governance work.
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Architecture is Problem-Solving
Any problem – ANY – can
be solved through
application of
Architecture.
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What About UML?
Many people familiar with Traditional
Architecture Patterns (for J2EE) will wonder
why there isn’t a greater focus here on Unified
Modeling Language (UML)?
The reason why is simple though – UML is a
notation language / framework. As such it can
be applied across architecture areas. EA
artifacts and Solution or Infrastructure artifacts
can be represented using various UML
diagrams (like Use Case, Class Diagrams,
Component Diagrams etc.). So UML represents
a standard tool & its use a standard technique.
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While there are various professional certifications for
specific Architecture practice areas (such as TOGAF,
FEAF, Cloud etc., J2EE), there are no “IT Architecture”
certifications. There are a handful university level
programs for IT Architecture – but for the most part – this
is a field that is still being defined.
The true test for someone wanting to work as an IT
Architect is the ability to use standard processes and
skills to solve problems across technology stacks. As the
enterprise becomes ever more complex, the need for IT
Architects will only increase. In following presentations,
we will explore IT Architecture process, tools and specific
focus areas in more detail…
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Conclusion