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Microservices and SOA
I’ve always had the impression that the microservices movement was trying nothing more than to apply SOA with common sense. Meaning, applying SOA without going overboard with tooling, for instance. And without the militaristic top-down approach. Etc. Martin Fowler put it much more eloquently in his talk during the goto; conference early last year. And… Continue reading
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Google still king of Mobile when it comes to ARPU
In an interesting article on TheInformation.com, Tom Dotan published the following chart: It shows the big lead Google has over its competitors in the mobile space regarding Average revenue per user (ARPU). Tom Dotan also uncovers that the industry is painfully opaque when it comes to detailing figures. Companies mostly don’t publish basic figures on… Continue reading
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Internet of Things presentation
November 14th I gave a presentation on the Internet of Things to students in their final year at the Karel De Grote Applied University of Antwerp. The preparation was an interesting journey for me. It (re-)confirmed that there is traction, that this is the right moment to find some business model and go for it.… Continue reading
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The Wearable Bank
In a sense a banking app on a mobile phone is already ‘Wearable’. Yet having apps on a Smart Watch or other ‘really’ wearable devices will allow us to do all kinds of new interesting interactions in general and with our banks specifically. Take Google Glasses, imagine them being available in normal looking designs 5… Continue reading
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3 Successful hybrid banking apps
With facebook, LinkedIn going off the Hybrid route a year or two ago and now with Asana also leaving the path of hybrid one might think hybrid apps have no place in Appland. However, some banks seem to have made some successful hybrid apps as we’ll shortly see. What makes them successful? Probably the following… Continue reading
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Mobile ads and independent game developers
In the interesting article Games Take Center Stage in Mobile Ad Surge on The Information, Walter Driver, CEO of Scopely, a mobile game publisher, calls Facebook “a very elaborate platform for routing people to the apps that are most relevant for them”. Google is another such platform. Google and facebook own 70% of the $18bln… Continue reading
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Great book on web site performance
Just when we thought we don’t need to worry too much about web site performance anymore, because PCs seem to have unlimited performance and are connected to broadband networks, come along mobile devices that are very capable yet resource restrained and connected to unreliable comparatively slow networks. Steve Souders‘ book Even Faster Web Sites: Performance… Continue reading
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4 reasons you should stay away from Almost-Scrum
[Originally posted on rtos.be] “Almost-Scrum” or what is also known more generally speaking as the Avalanche Model is not a good project approach to find yourself in with your development team. On Wiki you’ll find the following description: “The Avalanche model is a Software Engineering project management anti-pattern, it is a combination of a sequential process such as the Waterfall… Continue reading
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Mobile Testing Strategy
Introduction Talk about a difficult area of mobile development. Testing mobile applications and Web Sites. First we need to decide which platforms we wish to test: What is the lowest iOS device we’re testing on? 3GS, 4, 4S? (Worse) What are the Android devices and versions we’re testing on? Hmmm, Windows Phone market share in… Continue reading
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Selecting the right cross platform mobile development framework for your project
Many cross-platform development frameworks exist in “native”, html or hybrid forms. It is very time consuming to track all these technologies, let alone implement a non-trivial application in each one of them. This is, however, exactly what the people at Property cross have done! They implemented a non-trivial application using several known cross-platform development frameworks… Continue reading
About Me
As an experienced enterprise architect with a deep-rooted passion for cloud, AI, and architectural design, I’ve guided numerous companies through the management of their existing application landscapes and facilitated their transition to a future state.