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10 Skills All IT Architects Should Have

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IT architects are people who have the ability to engineer and design solutions across the architecture stack and across diverse technologies. While many architecture roles are more specific and require expert knowledge of one or several particular aspects of a larger enterprise environment, architects who intend to work across a broader range of projects need to possess a common set of foundation skills. The top 10 foundation skill sets for IT architects are as follows: Data modeling : Data modeling and data flow diagrams are an excellent starting point for understanding IT design principles and issues. The data of a system defines that system, and the data flow is essentially a parallel for most business processes.  More importantly however, the process of working with stakeholders, experts and users to define data entities, elements and schema as well as the data flows provides an excellent view into how architects perform many of their most important duties. Understanding...

Top 8 Architectural Principles for Designing Modern Web Applications

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The key objective of a software architect is to minimize the complexity of enterprise software system by segregating the design into various areas of concern. The creation of a well-designed system architecture of large web applications poses immense challenges in the software development process. System architecture design decision can significantly influence the system scalability and maintainability. The success lies in creation of an architectural framework that is responsive to the architectural challenges of these web applications. A comprehensive understanding of the architectural design principles will help business to manage many challenges ahead faced at the time of implementation. Ideally these principles will lead businesses toward creating applications out of isolated components that are not closely interconnected to other parts of the application, but rather interact through explicit interfaces or messaging systems. Separation of Concerns A key principle of ...

How to Choose a Technology Stack for Web Application Development

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What’s the most important thing to consider when you’re developing a top-notch web application? No doubt it’s the technology stack your app will be based upon.  The choice of a relevant tech stack is particularly challenging for small businesses and startups, since they usually have limited budgets and, thus, need a technology stack that provides the most bang for the buck to get their projects off the ground. The right tech stack is, to a great extent, the key to your project’s success, while the wrong choice of web development technologies may be a reason for failure. We’ve decided to give you a helping hand and reveal the criteria for choosing the most appropriate tech stack for your web application. WHAT IS A TECHNOLOGY STACK FOR WEB DEVELOPMENT Before moving on to the criteria for choosing a modern web technology stack, you should clearly understand what comprises the process of web development. Without going too deep into details, there are two sides to we...

Types of Data Structures

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Data structures are a very important programming concept. They provide us with a means to store, organize and retrieve data in an efficient manner. The data structures are used to make working with our data, easier. There are many data structures which help us with this. Types of Data Structures Image Source Primitive Data Structures These are the structures which are supported at the machine level, they can be used to make non-primitive data structures. These are integral and are pure in form. They have predefined behavior and specifications. Examples:  Integer, float, character, pointers. The pointers, however don’t hold a data value, instead, they hold memory addresses of the data values. These are also called the reference data types. Non-primitive Data Structures The non-primitive data structures cannot be performed without the primitive data structures. Although, they too are provided by the system itself yet they are derived data structures and cannot be ...