APIs are at the core of application development and they are at the center of any solution architecture. APIs are there from the time when everyone started developing internet-based applications. The high-level concept of connecting the frontend and the backend application did not change much - there was always some form of interface between the … Continue reading Apigee – Simplified API management platform
Author: Shankar Kumarasamy
Digital leader and technology enthusiast with experience in varied functional areas specializing in mobility and cloud backend.
Areas of specialization include:
1) Solutions architecture - Enterprise-scale solution consulting to determine major IT investments,
2) Technical architecture - End-to-end system and integration architecture including hardware and software,
3) Applications architecture - Multi-cloud native server-less application architecture,
4) Data architecture - Canonical data architecture and design including support to multi-tenancy data models,
5) Identity architecture - Different LoB identity management solutions involving SSO for customer 360 experience,
6) Security architecture - Eliminate digital risk by designing the flow of data between people, systems, and things with granular and only the needed access
Mobile apps: Third-party integration strategy
Mobile applications interact with different services, share and aggregate data, unify the functionalities, etc to give a unified experience to the user. Mobile apps are both producers and consumers of data, depending on the type of the application. Businesses across the globe interact with partners, vendors and leverage modern technologies to provide more value adds … Continue reading Mobile apps: Third-party integration strategy
Enterprise or Startup – How to get kick-started, or keep going with AWS?
One of the biggest hesitant factors in the cloud adoption strategy is the support customers expect from the cloud vendors. As more and more the business is served by technology, it is natural for the customers to think long-term with the cloud before taking the first step. In the last couple of years, it is … Continue reading Enterprise or Startup – How to get kick-started, or keep going with AWS?
Google I/O keynote – 2021 – Announcements and takeaways
Google IO is one of the high-profile developer events that millions of developers across the globe wait for every year. This year the event was hosted online. Google's ecosystem has a diversified developer portfolio that includes web, mobile, watch, TV, auto, cloud, etc. As expected the highlight of the event was AI, and how AI … Continue reading Google I/O keynote – 2021 – Announcements and takeaways
Cloud application development strategies – Brownfield or Greenfield?
The growth of cloud computing is multi-folds. The capability to launch the application almost anywhere in the world, the time to take the solution to the market, the richness of the services provided by the cloud vendors, and mostly the bare minimum requirement of just a laptop with internet connectivity for developers to develop the … Continue reading Cloud application development strategies – Brownfield or Greenfield?
What would the gig economy bring to the information technology sector?
The traditional employment models are changing, as more and more talent prefer to choose freelancing as a primary work style. Many experts in the industry are calling this freelancing as Gig employment or Talent Employment. The gig economy is not new for many industries. It is about connecting a person in need with the person … Continue reading What would the gig economy bring to the information technology sector?
AWS Glue – A simple, easy to use serverless ETL
As businesses grow bigger, there is a huge amount of data that is being collected by the different systems. With the emergence of GDPR, CCPA, and many other privacy regulations, there are lots of changes in the way the data is collected. The data are collected anonymously without being tagged to an individual. Businesses collect … Continue reading AWS Glue – A simple, easy to use serverless ETL
Federation in application development
Federation generally means 'an organization or group within which smaller divisions have some degree of internal autonomy'. As businesses are finding new ways to reach the customer in innovative ways, federated development helps in developing the products and take them to the market in a record-breaking time. The internal autonomy of the different teams gives … Continue reading Federation in application development
2020: Adaptive preparedness for the next decade and beyond
Who doesn't want to move away from 2020 and step into 2021? No matter where you are located and what you do, I hope everyone is just as excited as I am to see what 2021 has to offer. In one way, Covid-19 has brought in a unilateral mindset among enterprises, organizations, and governments to … Continue reading 2020: Adaptive preparedness for the next decade and beyond
Microservices – From inception to deployment
Micro-services are very much essential in the application paradigm. We can not talk about back-end applications without discussing microservices. They are not about the programming language, microservices are the source of truth for the business domains. Indeed they act as the technical implementation of the ubiquitous language derived from Domain-driven design. The paradigm shift that … Continue reading Microservices – From inception to deployment
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