illities and illiances: Quality Attributes from Security to Resiliency
Quality attributes or cross-cutting technical concerns represent a key area for architectural focus and constraints. From security which is a massively important enterprise issue to resiliency and flexibility, IT architects are faced with quality attribute trade offs on a daily basis. For example, optimizing an application or set of applications for performance will often result in detrimental effects on flexibility. These tradeoffs are an important part of the architects job and if overlooked can cause tremendous downstream impacts to the value IT can generate.
Architecture is an important activity on any software development project and with IT departments in general. Yet many architecture efforts go astray because the architectural approach doesn't reflect the culture of the team which it is trying to support. This presentation overviews agile strategies for both application and enterprise architectural endeavors and overviews the issues which you potentially need to address when doing so.
How Identity and Access Management Technology Secures Applications,
Employees and Information.
Security used to be added to IT systems as an afterthought - but no longer. Increasingly, security is architected into the DNA of modern IT sytstems. This presentation will discuss how Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps align IT architecture to business goals, ensures regulatory compliance while also speeding IT development. It will discuss IAM architecture to secure SOA, websites/portals, host systems access, staff and customer identities.
One of the important architectural qualities is Flexibility. But what does that mean? There are many aspects to flexibility such as planning for the future, supporting multiple devices or channels, being extensible. And, in today's SOA environment, flexibility is even more important in creating services that can be used in a variety of scenarios. This presentation will discuss the quality of flexibility and the principles of how to achieve it. Examples of flexible architectures and flexible service design will be used to illustrate these principles.
Quality Attributes are the foundational "ilities" we build into every technology solution. Making the appropriate optimization decision for one quality attribute over another is a particularly esoteric aspect of architecture engagement. In this presentation, we'll provide guidelines for determining which attributes should be encouraged and tracked - and when - in your enterprise.
