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Enterprise Technologist occasionally tweeting snippets on Enterprise / Systems Architecture & Blogging at :http://dalbanger.blogspot.com
The e-book of Global Regulatory Directory (2025) is no longer available ,as work continues on the 2026 version - paperback still available from Amazon.
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The Global Regulatory Directory (2025) - An Annotated Compendium of Regulatory Information (Know Your Compliance).
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A short (52 second video) to highlight the simplicity of a deskside sanctions check on the kyc-data.com portal.
17.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All business actions have consequences.
If you friend imposes a 50% tariff,out the blue, on your goods - it’s prudent to find new freinds and new markets ?
Saw this yesterday while walking with my wife - worth a share
Seamlessly integrated into the environment & gracefully standing the test of time ..
Nature is an amazing architect …
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Watching Tulsa King with Sylvester Stallone on Amazon and he just said;
“Form follows function” which made me smile…
FFF is a design principle that implies the shape or appearance of an object or building should be based on its intended purpose.
This article made me smile a new buzz word / phrase: “voluntary separation program” aka redundancy 😂
Verizon to take up to $1.9 billion severance charge in third quarter - www.reuters.com/business/med...
Not sure of the original source but worthy of a share :)
20.08.2024 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Food for thought🌪️ :
Hitchens's razor asserts “the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim, & if this burden is not met, the claim is unfounded, & its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it.
hmmm ?
Sometimes with most technology and even people, post diagnostics .. best to just hit ‘Reset’ - Flush those buffers !!
#branchbanking
Wrote a short sentence on North Star ✨statements !
Def so far - "North Star ✨represents an organisational definition of its purpose,products,customers & potential acquirers enabling a clarity on goals thus acting as a tool for investors to envision a company's future growth
Technology Debt
"Inherited debt must be managed, new debt must be avoided & unknown debt should be provisioned for!" .. me !
What a great quote
"The only cost that matters is opportunity cost" - Larry Page
Can be applied to so many things both in ones profesional and personal life ..so worthy of a post !
13.08.2024 21:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Having heard the following terms numerous time ;
“Time to Market”
“Order to Cash”
“Job to Hire”
Was surprised to hear a new term ;
“Crime to Court”
Learning 🎓something new everyday #FinCrime
Just came across a session I did for the Australian Computer Society (ACS) 3 years ago .. Worth a retweet if anyone is interested and a easy way to book mark for me.
EA Webinar to the ACS (Queensland) June2017 youtu.be/_41-izCm5rw via @YouTube
Don’t ask me why, I find myself reading the Code of #Hammurabi- A King who enforced a law(196) :An Eye for an Eye.
Law 229 is seriously harsh. However consider code 233 as part of large IT contracts - would weed out some large consultancies in the bidding process ?
An edited version of a conversation with @jonathanmcguinness.bsky.social for his podcast (Part 2 ~ The EA Mindset)
Some things for one to consider ?
youtu.be/G-S7PzlN6l0?...
I needed to create a generic Table of Contents for a Solution Design – part of some new material I am creating. Here’s my short blog outlining some ideas on the elements one should consider.
Subsequently posted the Word Document for re-use soon.
dalbanger.blogspot.com/2024/01/solu...
The Generative AI framework Created by the Central Digital and Data Office for HM Government
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65c3b5...
Earlier this year I spent 45 mins looking at the original source code of MS-DOS after digging out the old manuals - thought I would match the syntax to the code.
Sharing screen shot of the "Copy" assembly code at git.
URL for Source : github.com/microsoft/MS...
#ComputingHistory
Came across this from an old slide deck, used as part of a wider conversation, I used in 2016 to discuss the architectural mindset and then presented in Feb 2017.
Provides something to think about.
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If your financial organisation operates in the EU region and plans to outsorce services to a 3rd party clouds provider then you may want to read the new ESMA Regulation.
www.esma.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
Ive attached my mind-map which you may find helpful.
Produced this several years ago and I am re-using for a something I am working on..
SMART Requirements....
#requirements
#reuse
Observe -> Orient-> Decide -> Act
The OODA loop
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."
Melvin E. Conway
Design for change....💭
Zero Trust Security Architectural Principle ;
Trust nothing - Validate everything - Always !
#Security
DRY - "don't repeat yourself"
A principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of patterns & code duplication in favor of abstractions & avoiding redundancy.
#SoftwareEngineering #architecture #stack
