Simon Griffiths

Focusing on Data, Architecture and AI

Simon Griffiths architects data-first systems, and is sceptical about the rest.

Drawing on long experience across enterprise data, architecture, and AI, he prefers platforms designed for reality, not just the latest narrative.

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  • Building a Data Driven Organisation

    It’s obvious to everyone that we are currently going through a huge shift in the way that IT is used within our lives. The term “paradigm-shift” is much overused, but…


  • Data Platform

    Introduction There’s no question that data is becoming an important topic in almost every organisation. For some organisations data will be seen as a challenge – as security breaches, privacy…


  • Friday night moan ….. Fashion driven IT

    While I’ve been researching my articles over the past week, one thing that struck me was how much we seem to have diverged from a scientific approach to IT development…


  • Microservices and GDPR

    Well, there’s two words you don’t often see together. What has an application development methodology have to do with European data protection laws? In fact, rather a lot. Let’s start…


  • Securing your data

    We all know that cyber-crime is increasing every year and at the moment we seem to be losing the battle against the blacks out there. Clearly the solution is to…


  • Microservices and Business Processes

    In yesterday’s article I discussed the challenges of co-ordinating activities across a complex set of microservices, and I touched on the subject of end-to-end view of customer journeys and complex…


  • Some thoughts on Orchestration and Choreography

    Analogies are risky things, there’s always a chance that if you stretch one too far, it breaks and disproves the point you’re trying to make. What’s even worse is when…


  • Architecture Advent

    At this time of year, the demand for enterprise architecture seems to drop precipitously. Most companies have the dual challenge of meeting huge challenges, but with reduced resources as everyone…


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Simon Griffiths architects data-first systems, sceptical about the rest. Drawing on long experience across enterprise data, architecture, and AI, he prefers platforms designed for reality, not just the latest narrative.