The Legacy System Trap: Why “If It Ain’t Broke” is a Security Risk
There is a strange comfort in legacy systems.
You know the quirks. The workarounds. The way a batch job limps through at 2am, just a...
Enterprise Service Bus
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) can have either a traditional hub-and-spoke architecture or a distributed, peer-to-peer architecture. H...
Demystifying the Cloud: An Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, as of today (3rd Sept, 2023) AW...
Bank-Grade Cloud: Architecture Under Stress
Most cloud roadmaps look tidy on paper.
Pick the right services, stack them neatly, tick the boxes for networking, compute, storage,...
Journey from Changi Business Park to Canary Wharf
Just wanted to share my personal thoughts about Changi Business Park and Canary Wharf. I worked in Changi Business Park, Singapore and ...
Architecture Diagrams: Trust, or Just a Comfortable Lie?
Most architecture diagrams tell a comforting lie.
They make everything look neat, rational, and future-proof.But the reality inside ...
backToBasics: Same VM, everything in Java is pass by value
Let's refresh the topic for all the variables running in a single virtual machine "Everything in Java is pass by value",
Some newcomer...
