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Alexandre Touret

With over two decades of experience as a seasoned software architect, I am fueled by a passion for technology, cloud computing, and software development. Throughout my career, I have designed, built, and managed systems of varying scales across a diverse range of industries, including insurance, financial services, and mobility.I take great pleasure in sharing my insights and experiences with others, whether by teaching, speaking at conferences, organizing hands-on workshops, or writing articles. By engaging with the community, I aim to inspire and provide practical insights drawn from my hands-on experience.
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Architecture Katas for dummies

The sad reality

Meet John. John is a good lad, he has spent most of his five-year-long career so far as a good developer and excellent lead developer. A few weeks back, Linda (his boss) offered him an architect position. John saw that as a promotion, and took the opportunity. Fast-forward a few months: A big service has to be built, and it falls upon John to design the whole solution, him being the architect and all…

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A short introduction of Apache Beam

Introduction

Once upon a time, in the wide Big Data’s world, several frameworks and runtime environments existed to design, code and execute ETL , streaming and batch tasks. It was very complicated for developers and architect to wisely choose the good one corresponding to the use case. It should be evolutive and could scale effectively in production. There were Apache SPARK SQL for queries, Apache Flink for real-time streaming, Hadoop Map reduce for batch usages and so on. In this way, it was very complicated and a bit overwhelming to pick and deploy in production the right tool for the right job.

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An Open Source history

Introduction

“Linux is a cancer”, “Open source sofware is not sure and not secured”… Nowadays these affirmations sound weird, but a decade ago we could hear that kind of affirmations by some people working in IT. Currently, Open Source is everywhere, not only in software. This article is the first part of a series dedicated to Open Source’s world. In this first article we will cover the history from the beginning up to the mass market deployment.

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