Our educational series, ‘Champions of Cloud: Charting FSIs Forward,’ is born from the resounding success of our event in partnership with AWS and PayNet in August 2023, which was dedicated to Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) release of Appendix 10 (Formerly CTRAG) within its Risk Management in Technology (RMiT) Policy Document. The overwhelming enthusiasm and engagement […]
An Analysis of Istio Service Mesh
Istio is a leading service mesh solution with a proven track record of successful use cases in production. The Istio community is prolific, dynamic, and continues to introduce new features very frequently. Istio is possibly the most feature-rich solution on the market and has a mature ecosystem of tools and vendors. Service Mesh Comparison With […]
A Technical Deep Dive into Istio Service Mesh
What are the Benefits of Service Mesh? A service mesh is a cloud-native infrastructure layer used to manage service-to-service communication. It is responsible for the reliable delivery of requests through the complex topology of distributed services that comprise a modern cloud-native application. Behavioural insights and operational control over application service ecosystems are provided, offering a […]
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How to Avoid Common Challenges with Data Mesh Adoption
As a company grows, data-related problems can arise. These might include organisational silos, a lack of data sharing, and poor understanding of what data means outside the context of its business domain. Incompatible technologies can also be an issue, hindering actionable insights, and it can be difficult to push data through ‘extract, transform, load’ (ETL) […]
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Why Istio Service Mesh Could Relieve Your Cloud Modernisation Headaches
Modernisation is a critical success factor for cloud transformation. But the transition from monolithic legacy programs to cloud-native applications can be a challenge. Developers must learn to manage applications using loosely linked microservices. Simultaneously, operations teams must manage new cloud-native applications in larger hybrid and multi-cloud settings. Istio service mesh offers a powerful and effective […]
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Driving Growth with Data Mesh Architectures
If you’re happy with your company’s data analytics capabilities and you’re using data to drive business decisions effectively, you can stop reading now. Unfortunately, few are in this category. In our experience, even companies with sophisticated data architectures sometimes struggle to use their data. The following three scenarios may sound painfully familiar. Company A: Sophisticated, […]
Optimal Use of Work-in-Progress Limits
The work in progress (WIP) concept originated in the Lean manufacturing movement. In both a financial and operational sense WIP is considered a form of waste. It’s work that has been done and paid for but is providing no benefit to the customer or the company. WIP is an even more insidious problem in software […]
Building Software that Shouts the Language of Your Business
Poor cohesion between engineers, product owners, and executive teams can be a limiting factor in software development. It often leads to two problem scenarios: 1. Your Company Struggles to Build Quality Software The problem is not staff – you have talented engineers, knowledgeable agile professionals, and top business leadership. They are all paid at or […]
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A Framework for Test Automation
We used to joke that engineers only tested software if they lacked confidence in their code. A confident and capable engineer wouldn’t need to write tests at all; their code would always work as expected. It’s funny because even the best engineer lacks confidence in their code. If we could be 100% confident that code […]
How to Ensure Business Value is Recognised in Enterprise Change Management
As the economic slowdown bites, demonstrating and clearly articulating enterprise change projects’ business value is imperative. This is especially true for years-long initiatives like those surrounding cloud adoption. If business leaders don’t recognise that a project is fundamental to future performance, it is likely to be abandoned in hard times. Technology leaders and CIOs can’t […]
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