A daily treasure trove for architects, expanding your view and depth. We share enterprise, business, application, data, technology, and security architecture, discuss frameworks, planning, governance, standards, and implementation, and explore emerging styles such as microservices, event‑driven, micro‑frontend, big data, data warehousing, IoT, and AI architecture.
This article provides a comprehensive, step-by-step tutorial for creating effective, visual, and interactive enterprise architecture products following the Dragon1 Open EA methodology, covering conceptual design, preliminary design, and archiving phases with detailed instructions for each deliverable.
Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI chief scientist, shared a curated list of 27 seminal AI research papers—including the Annotated Transformer, Attention Is All You Need, and Deep Residual Learning—with links, claiming mastering them covers roughly 90% of today’s essential artificial‑intelligence knowledge.
The article explains what reference models are, outlines business, technical, and information reference model types, and provides guidance on how to represent these models consistently using the ArchiMate modeling language within enterprise architecture practice.
This article explains how the IEEE 802.1X framework works with Supplicant, Authenticator, and Authentication server components, compares popular Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) methods, discusses their security strengths and weaknesses, and offers guidance on selecting appropriate EAP types for enterprise WLANs.
This article explains Microsoft Dataverse’s comprehensive security model, covering role‑based security, business units, hierarchical and matrix data access structures, record and column‑level security, and practical steps for configuring ownership, teams, and integration with Microsoft Entra security groups.
The article explains how to classify architecture descriptions along the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum—from foundational architectures to common, industry, and organization‑specific models—providing practical guidance for architects to select and adapt reference models for their enterprises.
This article explains how Microsoft Dynamics 365 leverages Azure’s multi‑layer security architecture—including zero‑trust, encryption, role‑based access control, identity management, continuous monitoring, and compliance features—to safeguard data against threats and ensure privacy for enterprises adopting cloud ERP solutions.
The article outlines the CISSP‑ISSAP certification for security architects, detailing exam format, passing score, target audience, prerequisites, and a range of preparation resources including official guides, online courses, books, community forums, and practice tests to help candidates succeed.
This article explains what microservices are, outlines their advantages and disadvantages, compares them with monolithic architectures, and provides practical guidance on when and how to adopt a microservice approach for scalable, maintainable backend systems.
This article explains how the hierarchical security model in Microsoft Dataverse extends existing security mechanisms by introducing manager and position hierarchies, details their configuration, access rules, performance tips, and how to include or exclude records of disabled users.
