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Minimum Viable Solution Architecture
Recently at work, someone asked me why my team wasn’t creating detailed logical data models as part of their solution design. It seems quite simple to me – they don’t do it because nobody reads it. Most solution architecture documentation is out of date before it even gets logged in the architecture repository. Why do…
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Protocol level integrity guarantees in Kafka
I was recently asked to design a method to meet ITAC (IT Application Controls) standards for critical data flows in our organisation. ITAC are application-level controls looking mainly at how we ensure the completeness, accuracy and validity of transactions – for example, invoices or trades. Our control set is based on the ICFR principles, of…