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Solution Design - Table of Contents

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  Today’s short blog, the first for 2024, derives from recent work in which I required a classic Table of Contents (TOC) for a Solution Design( SD ) Document/ Artefact. To create this TOC, I began by listing elements one would expect to see in the artefact i.e. primary section headers, which is challenging when you consider the ‘ purpose’ of the document, and  the target audience both of which impact the overall structure of the document. For most artefacts, it would be prudent to tailor the SD to meet the needs and challenges of the specific  problem. For example, a basic SD for a new in-house development may be very technical, especially when the target audience may be the Systems Community ( Developers, Testers, Service Management etc.) and resulting in an artefact with the content and focus on  Component Views(Building Module Blocks) , Deployment Views and the Runtime Operations .  So, when I considered the elements for the SD Artefact I wanted to create a generic TOC , on
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Happy New Year ...

Thank you for visiting the blog. I would like to start by posting a short message / comment regarding the horizon of content creation and blogging stemming from an interesting question I came across on another channel. Which asked, “ Why create new content when one can simply do a google search and retrieve examples or ask the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) for a solution with some basic context?” The above is fast becoming a important question in today’s world of Generative AI and the wide array of search tools allowing one to simply ‘ rinse and repeat ’ other people’s work? A great comment which goes to the heart of content creation - For me using Generative AI Tools to create content could be classed as ‘cheating’ and like all cheats – they always get found out in the end. So as I start creating new content I will ensure it’s not ripped off and will always share the source of for any 3 rd party references  made    and I ask you do the same – If reusing any of
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Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation and ICT Strategy - Seminar Video Presented at the AUC Egypt

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Sharing the full video ,2hr 45 minutes, of my recent seminar delivered to the MBA Students of the American University in Cairo (AUC).  I recommend skipping 1.30-1-55 of the video as this was the break period, as the camera was left on. There is a lot of content with some great questions - hope you find it useful. Enterprise Systems Architecture Seminar at the AUC Egypt . https:// youtu.be/ztOYZYa4FcI Any questions please contact me direct.
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Location: Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
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Reflecting on Error Management and listing HTTP Status Codes

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Let me start by apologising, as todays blog can be considered, by some , as content of little value to support macro EA views and a topic where information can be sourced easily via the web or by using AI tools (fast becoming everyday tools). However I felt I would   share this reference type  material, as error codes are always required for those building information systems. FYI recently I had to examine various  http error codes used in  a Cloud based API management system in respect of the flows of  message exchanges and conduct analysis of non-typical scenarios e.g. a missing authentication token resulting in an invalid exchange between the backend and the API Gateway. Under normal operational conditions, interactions between two or more system will result in the exchange numerous codes which notify each system of task status e.g. a 200 return code will represents that all is well and allows the process continuation of further orchestration of a workflow to complete its task.
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