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There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

For decades, organizations have approached data architecture with a monolithic mindset—centralized platforms, complex codebases and rigid structures. While these systems were built with the noble goal ...

AI initiatives don’t stall because models aren’t good enough, but because data architecture lags the requirements of agentic systems.

The evolution of software architecture is contributing to increasing energy consumption.

Is software architecture art, science, engineering, or something new? This debate has long been central to the community.