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The Story No One Cares About: PC Sales at lowest number since 2007

CTOvision

The analyst firm IDC reports that worldwide PC shipments in 2015 were about 300 million units, on par with 2007 numbers. We recommend tracking the trends and building projections along these lines of analysis: Cloud Computing : The efficiencies of this new architecture are driving compute costs down. Bob Gourley.

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The Ethics Of Big Data: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Are Writing New Case Studies For Us All

CTOvision

The term “Big Data” has been around quite a while (see a short history of Big Data here), but really came into mainstream discussion in 2007 (which also happens to be the first year CTOvision used the word). The phrase had an important role in helping many of us think through new architectures for how […].

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Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agile Estimation and Architecture Leads to Collaboration and Innovation. Solutioning and Estimating is when team leaders will consider a prioritized feature, recognize multiple approaches and organize them into scenarios, break down each scenario into Story Stubs, consider architecture needs , and estimate them. ► 2007. (25).

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Is this Amazon’s next store? Long-rumored site in Seattle area signals larger grocery ambitions

GeekWire

This is either an Amazon store, or someone is stealing the tech giant’s architecture. Looking at the similarities to the architecture of the first Amazon Fresh grocery store , in Woodland Hills, Calif. The architectural firm listed on the plans, BRR Architecture , has also worked on other Amazon retail projects.

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My API story: Helping CSPs capture new digital service opportunities

TM Forum

Open APIs are an essential IT Architecture element when designing technology solutions such as BSS and OSS. First conceived as a multi-party BSS platform back in 2007, Infonova platform. We have also managed to streamline our solution architecture to utilize the Open API approach to remove core code customizations by 100%.

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Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects

Social, Agile and Transformation

Insuring Architecture needs fit into an Agile Development Practice. Software Architects sometimes struggle with fitting in architecture needs within rapid agile development cycles. This leaves little time for an architect to plan and develop architecturally sound solutions to business priorities. and business transformation.

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The Most Inventive Thing I've Done

Phil Windley

In 2007, I co-founded a company called Kynetx and realized that the infrastructure necessary for building our product did not exist. Because picos support peer-to-peer architectures, putting a vehicle in more than one fleet or having a fleet with multiple owners was easy. I decided to write about picos.