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Data Science Architect Interview Questions

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In this post, you will learn about interview questions that can be asked if you are going for a data scientist architect job. Data science architect needs to have knowledge in both data science/machine learning and cloud architecture. In addition, it also helps if the person is hands-on with programming languages such as Python & R. Without further ado, let’s get into some of the common questions right away. I will add further questions in the time to come. Q1. How do you go about architecting a data science or machine learning solution for any business problem? Solving a business problem using data science or machine learning based solution can …

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AWS Architects – Best Practices to build Efficient Systems

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Here is a great resource (best practices and guidelines) which would help cloud architects (especially, AWS Solution architects) build the most secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure possible for their applications. That said, these cloud architecture whitepapers (pdf) would also prove helpful and useful for all kinds of cloud architects including Azure, Google Cloud, IBM, Oracle cloud etc. The following lists down the links for pages in related areas of interest: Operational excellence: Includes topics such as managing and automating changes, responding to events, and defining standards to successfully manage daily operations. Security: Includes aspects such as confidentiality and integrity of data, access-control, data audit etc Reliability: Includes topics such as recovery …

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Architects – How to Calculate Service Availability Time?

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This page lists down different aspects which can be considered by solution architects / technical architects / application architects on how to calculate service availability time. Given that microservices architecture style / cloud-native is adopted in modern age applications development, it would be good to know this piece of information. Service availability is commonly defined as the percentage of time that an application is operating normally. The following are different techniques which can be used to calculate service availability: Availability as function of MTBF and MTTR Availability with hard dependencies Availability with redundant components / services Service Availability as a function of MTBF and MTTR Service availability can be calculated based …

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Architecture – Top 10 Traits of a Software Architect

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This article represents my opinion on top 10 traits of a software architect. Recently, I came across a need of my fellow colleague who asked me to take a shot at defining, what would it take for someone to become an architect. The below could be applied to architect in any technologies. Note that the below does not take into account few traits of an enterprise architect. However, I purposely did not include it. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.   Following are the top 10 traits described below: Knowledge of relevant technologies Should demonstrate strong …

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LinkedIn Application Architecture – Software Distribution View

The article lists down the softwares used at different layers in the LinkedIn platform layered architecture. Presentation Layer Dust.js (Client-side templating JS engine) Backbone.js (Client-side MVC JS framework) JQuery  YUI Library (UI libraries started by Yahoo engineers) Google V8 Engine (Used as server side JS templating engine) Node.js (Used in mobile app) HTML5 (Used in mobile app) Business Layer Java (Applications such as Profile) Grails (Applications such as a Recruiter app) JRuby (Applications such as a Skills app) Spring (Component Model) Scala Middleware Apache Kafka (Distributed entreprise-level messaging system) Data Layer Oracle (RDBMS as primary data store used for writes) Espresso (NoSQL data store emerging as primary data store and envisioned to …

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Data Architecture Lessons from LinkedIn.com Data Handling Mechanisms

The article aims to describe how data is managed at LinkedIn.com, the most popular professional social networking site.  Please shout out loud if you disagree with one or more of the aspects mentioned below. Also, do suggest if I missed on one or more aspects. Data use-cases at LinkedIn.com Following are some of the data use-cases that we may have come across while we are surfing various different LinkedIn pages: Update your profile, and the same appears in recruiter search in near real-time. Update your profile and same appears as network connections  in near real-time. Share an update, and same appears on others news feed page  in near real-time. Then, there are …

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List of Handy Architecture & Design Patterns for Developers & Architects

[adsenseyu2] If you are a newbie developer. experienced developer, aspiring to be architect or an architect, you may want to keep following architecture & design patterns handy with you to solve day-to-day software architecture and design problems at your work place. These patterns can be applied for developers/architects of varied experience level, having expertise with various different technologies (programming languages). Please feel free to suggest additional patterns as if I may have missed some of them. Application Architecture Patterns: These patterns primarily are related with topics such as how to layer an enterprise application, how to organize domain logic, how to tie that logic to a relational database, how to design a …

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Top Architecture & Governance Principles for 2014

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Following are some of the key architecture and governance principles that you could adopt for your project for this year 2014. The architecture principles could be seen as “guiding principles” based on which team would want to design, develop and test the applications. Key Architecture Principles (Guiding Principles) Holistic approach to application security: Given that applications could be accessed from different channels including web and mobile devices, the attack vectors for hacker has increased to a great extent. Thus, traditional approach of applying perimeter level security and doing security penetration testing may not suffice. Instead, it may be a good idea to take a holistic approach towards application security as …

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Journey from Technical Lead to Technical Architect

What is road to becoming a technical architect is a tricky topic, many wants to know. Especially, this is of interest largely to senior developers and technology leads. Let me give a shot at this. I would love to hear your comments in this regard: Technology vs Thought Leadership: Technical lead is primarily responsible for exploration and implementation of technology (tools & frameworks) to solve a particular set of problem in hand. He also plays a crucial role in doing proof-of-concept in related with adoption of newer technologies. The person on this role also acts as a mentor and guide to individual team members in terms of adoption of technology. However, …

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