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The Software Architect Elevator is worth it. Only $18 for the nine item bundle if you don't want to spring for the full set of 24 for only $25. ~$1/book is quite the bargain for investing in yourself, without actually being cheap about it. Highly recommend the Software Architect Elevator.

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Join your Atlanta Red Hat User Group (RHUG) community to see how to manage Microsoft SQL clusters with Red Hat Ansible

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This week's issue covers Kubernetes CRD validation, new GCP workflow connectors, AI hype critique, and sys admin books. Also, tools for better K8s Job orchestration, package management, and local/remote (Remocal?) development.

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As organizations enable data access to the mainframe from hybrid cloud architectures, it is essential to protect your data. Check out Team SWAMI's Principal Consultant, Gregory DeBo's perspective on protecting Db2 data. Feel free to reach out to Greg or me to discuss ways our team can help as you think about ways to protect your mainframe data. #mainframe #ibmz #db2 #mainframesecurity

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Podcast: Architecture Does Not Emerge - A Conversation with Tracy Bannon: In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Tracy Bannon about what software architecture really is, and what an architect needs to be able to do. Tracy is a senior principal at MITRE. She sees herself as a passionate software architect and change agent who also puts out the Real Technologists podcast. By Tracy Bannon #DataIntelligence #DataArchitect #DataEngineer

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AWS Message Processing Framework for .NET is still in developer preview, but it's interesting as it encapsulates boilerplate code that probably have been written thousands of times. Looking forward to trying this library. I hope it will include some features in the future like supporting Kafka topics and Kinesis streams, and built-in support for message idempotency. https://lnkd.in/gUm9Xb-4

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In this article I do a deep dive into the most valuable skill for a solution architect: building relationships. If you're an SA, this one skill is your bread and butter.

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My warmest recommendation to Eric Jager book Getting started with enterprise architecture It is an easy reading putting many things into a practical content. Erik also offers part of the book on this site where you can navigate through the different parts of enterprise architecture https://eawheel.com

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Accelerate your mainframe workloads Leveraging Infrastructure as Code for AWS Mainframe Modernization with Terraform.

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While AI is making noise, there is another software movement happening. The open source community is starting to make pretty sexy free software that is aiming right at some of the big players like Salesforce, Atlassian, Okta, Dropbox, Slack and more. Here are the top 5 that are trending across Github, while not yet suitable for enterprise, if you are a small team of under 100 people these should likely go on your radar as a way to save $$ and have a cleaner, easier platform to use. Twenty - Very good looking CRM | twenty.com Huly - Taking on both Jira and Slack | huly.io Hanko - A full auth system taking on Auth0 | www.hanko.io Papermark - Document management like DocSend | www.papermark.io Dub - Bitly like Short links for Marketing | dub.co The play here is that people won't bother running their own instances and instead opt for their Cloud offerings, the beauty of this setup though is even if you do end up paying for the Cloud, you always have an escape hatch which isn't something that is available for many of the incumbents in the space.

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Agents for Amazon Bedrock: Handling return of control in code 👉 Learn how to handle Amazon Bedrock agents return of control in your backend services and simplify your integrations https://buff.ly/3URyW8E #AWS #AI #GenAI #Python #Boto3

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Since our #DevOpsDays Raleigh conference last week, have had a lot of questions about how our conference committee does it - summed up in the blog here:  https://lnkd.in/eyik8NAy #DevOpsDaysRDU 

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I've dusted off my trusty pen and started writing the second part of "Build Self-Service Pipeline to Deploy Self-Hosted Environment Agents on Azure Workloads" In this part, I have created the pre-pipeline phase that is required before you start deploying self-hosted environment agents. Want to check it out? Have a look at: https://lnkd.in/e7iKdwQr #azure #azuredevops #azurepipelines #powershell #automation #blog

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This is a helpful guide to AI architects in thinking about scalability, capability and responsible use of LLM enabled systems.

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