Continuous Transformation Blog

The Week in Enterprise Architecture #33 | 2017

Written by Laura Mauersberger | August 18, 2017

Do Enterprise Architects have a leg up on the competition to segue into a Cloud career? How sturdy is Enterprise Architecture without Business Architecture? How has digital transformation affected decision making in the enterprise?  Daniel Lambert explains below. Which three trends are at the top of the eminent Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, and how can EAs use these trends to positively impact their organizations? Check out the "trends" section below. Developers spend more than 20% of their time reviewing code to ensure quality. Codacy, a startup from Portugal, just raised $5.1M to help optimise 30% of their code review time.

What else has happened in the EAM world? Continue reading below.

I - ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE 

Enterprise Architecture Without Business Architecture: A Failure.
Enterprise architecture without business architecture may probably still deliver value by bringing structure and planning to the critical IT project delivery, but will usually fail in delivering enough value to the stakeholders that use these IT resources. Read the article here.

Enterprise Architect: The Path to the Cloud.
Good enterprise architects, accustomed to quickly picking up different types of technologies, can transition into cloud computing roles with little training. 
This article shows you how to map a path to those jobs from your current state if you are an enterprise architect. 

II - TRENDS

Gartner Identifies Three Megatrends That Will Drive Digital Business Into the Next Decade.

The emerging technologies on the Gartner Inc. Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 reveal three distinct megatrends that will enable businesses to survive and thrive in the digital economy over the next five to 10 years. Enterprise architects who are focused on technology innovation must evaluate these high-level trends and the featured technologies, as well as the potential impact on their businesses. Click here to find out what these three megatrends are. 

Blockchain Is Entering the Enterprise Mainstream. 

A blockchain-enabled digital marketplace is the one area where organizations anticipate significant disruption,” the report's authors observe. Two-thirds of executives in digitally advanced companies expect new blockchain-enabled marketplaces to spark significant disruption. Read more here

III - TECHNOLOGY

Harnessing AI to Make DevOps More Effective.

AI-powered log analysis aims to give companies a warning when there may be a problem in their system by reading logs and detecting when something is likely to go wrong -- and then sends out alerts so DevOps and IT managers can respond before systems go down.  Read more about the integration of AI and DevOps here.

GitHub Seeks to Spur Innovation With Kubernetes Migration

GitHub's engineers migrated the massive infrastructure that powers github.com and api.github.com -- some of its most critical workloads -- from a set of manually-configured physical servers to Kubernetes clusters that run application containers. GitHub is confident the move will allow for faster innovation on the online code sharing and development platform. Read more about the migration to Kubernetes here.

IV - RELATED NEWS

Atlas Robot Drops Boxes in Newly Released TED Talk Footage

What could be more humanlike than making mistakes?  Boston Dynamics makes some of the most advanced robots in the world, but even its machines have weaknesses. Footage from a newly-released TED Talk shows the company’s bipedal Atlas robot performing some remarkable human-like maneuvers — and one stunning blunder. Watch the video here.

Codacy, a Platform That Helps Developers Check the Quality of Their Code, Raises $5.1M

Launched in 2014, Codacy says it has been used by hundreds of companies, name-checking Paypal, Adobe, Qlik, Cancer Research UK, and Deliveroo as customers. The software can be installed on-premise or accessed in the cloud and is used by developers to check the quality of code, and implement code quality standards. Read more about their exciting series A funding round here