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Nick McKenna
We are computer programmers at heart and implementing high quality, tailored systems to suit your needs is what we do best. We have been delivering revenue generating, time saving and life changing bespoke software development in Harrogate, Yorkshire since 2004.
We start off with the best of intentions. We’re going to manage this new service/ product/ project using a simple spreadsheet. It won’t be complicated, as we’re going to put it on a shared drive so we can collaborate, until a number of varying factors … more
Everybody seems to be doing microservices these days, so what are microservices (or microservice architecture) and how does it affect your architecture? Well, in the good old days (not so long ago), computer systems were developed in large units of deployment. A web-based system may … more
Software as a Service (SaaS) has become an increasingly dominant part of the modern Digital Transformation over the last few years. Digital Transformations are increasingly seeking to create their own SaaS platform for their customers and for internal use as part of their Digital Transformation. … more
Digital Platform Part 10 Of 10 Progressive Digital Platforms typically have various monitoring and logging mechanisms. These mechanisms allow for simple availability monitoring or sometimes a more detailed access log is needed. Access Log In low-trust environments it may be important to track which users … more
Digital Platform Part 9 Of 10 Behind the scenes of your new Progressive Digital Platform, it is likely that you will be aggregating data from multiple legacy systems and issuing instructions across various systems. For example, retrieving complete information about a customer may require retrieving … more
Digital Platform Part 8 Of 10 Microsoft Azure provides an excellent component for easily managing your APIs in the cloud called API Management. Typically APIs’ code would be implemented using a mechanism such as an Azure Function or web application. Azure API Management fronts the … more
Digital Platform Part 7 Of 10 A modern Digital Platform API typically uses the industry standard OAuth and OpenID Connect to allow clients to Authenticate to the API. This functionality is typically provided by a third party Identity Provider system such as Okta, Auth0, Microsoft … more
Digital Platform Part 6 Of 10 The previous articles in this series have covered defining goals, creating architecture as well as modelling, mapping and cleansing data. Against that background, the next key activity is to design an API (Application Programming Interface) that client mobile Apps, … more
Digital Platform Part 5 Of 10 In previous articles, we have defined our goals, system architecture, data model and we have mapped out how to get access to the data we require. Now we should consider the data cleansing process within the legacy systems. What … more
Digital Platform Part 4 Of 10 In parts 1 and 2 of this series we looked at what a Digital Platform is and how one would architect such a system . In part 3, we examined how to define a Data Model for your Digital Platform. The … more