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When managing your enterprise data, you should aim for a flexible, loosely coupled architecture that can handle large-scale batch and streaming data as well as APIs

When managing your enterprise data, you should aim for a flexible, loosely coupled architecture that can handle large-scale batch and streaming data as well as APIs

Piethein Strengholt – Data management at scale

Thorough expose that goes through a lot, over-indexing on the architecture side.

When structuring your tech-heavy organization it helps to think in archetypes of team roles and interaction modes

When structuring your tech-heavy organization it helps to think in archetypes of team roles and interaction modes

Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais – Team Topologies

An elegant little book that provides a refreshingly clear view on how to make Conway’s law an effective principle for organizing products and platforms.

Almost any country can hack its way to power, posing a threat to political systems and essential infrastructure world-wide

Almost any country can hack its way to power, posing a threat to political systems and essential infrastructure world-wide

Nicole Perlroth – This is ho they tell me the world ends

Although the writer clearly picks sides, she does not shy away from the role of the US in the cyber arms race.

Cyber warfare is getting increasingly sophisticated and the USA can no longer contain the threat of Russia and other foreign powers

Cyber warfare is getting increasingly sophisticated and the USA can no longer contain the threat of Russia and other foreign powers

Andy Greenberg – Sandworm

At some points the investigative journalism is not fully convincing, but it conveys the message effectively.

It is a miracle that databases actually work, considering all the things that can go wrong

It is a miracle that databases actually work, considering all the things that can go wrong

Martin Kleppmann – Designing Data-intensive applications

Surprisingly readable for a text of this sort of technical depth

Run your IT department like it is a factory

Run your IT department like it is a factory

Gene Kim et. al. – The Phoenix project

The well-established template of ‘The Goal‘ applied to IT.

Anticipate change in products, processes and requirements; and organize for that

Anticipate change in products, processes and requirements; and organize for that

Jez Humble – Lean enterprise

Despite the unavoidable buzzwords that come with the genre, Lean and Agile are actually sane and useful management principles.

Pedro Domingos – The master algorithm

Pedro Domingos – The master algorithm

The author’s invention (“Markov logic networks”) may unify the symbolist, connectionist, evolutionary, Baysian, and analogizing approaches to machine learning.

The brave attempt to cover an inherently deep subject in a non-technical way.

Jill Dyche – The new IT

Jill Dyche – The new IT

Align your IT department with your corporate objectives.

It seems to be impossible to write a book about IT without referring to ‘frameworks’ (= a solution a little bit more specific than a thought, but far less concrete than a plan).

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