Articles

Looking at Data like a City Street

Kyle Brown

Build a healthy workplace: 4 intersecting groups and their responsibilities

Kyle Brown and Shane Dowley

Patterns, Github and Misplaced Expectations

Kyle Brown

The role of an Agile Architect (Republish in Red Hat Enable Architect)

Kyle Brown, Shahir Daya and Darcy Lalor

Why you (probably) don’t need elastic scaling

Kyle Brown and Kim Clark

The “why” of cloud native: goals and benefits

Kyle Brown and Kim Clark

The “how” of cloud native: Infrastructure and Technology Perspective

Kyle Brown and Kim Clark

The “how” of cloud native: Architecture and Design Perspective

Kyle Brown and Kim Clark

The “how” of cloud native: People and Process Perspective

Kyle Brown and Kim Clark

What does cloud native really mean?

Kyle Brown and Kim Clark

7 patterns of Cloud Adoption

Kyle Brown, Ingo Averdunk and Ndu Emuchay

Avoiding incomplete cloud native adoption

Kyle Brown

Design Patterns, Smalltalk, and the lost art of reading code

Kyle Brown

Thoughtful Reopening

Kyle Brown and E.G. Nadhan

Database Considerations for Microservices

Kyle Brown

Microservices, Industry API’s and the Inverse Conway Maneuver

Kyle Brown and Shahir Daya

What is the right size for a Microservice?

Kyle Brown and Shahir Daya

On Architectural Testability

Kyle Brown

GitArchitecture; A Better Way to Capture Architectural Decisions

Kyle Brown

Maps for the Journey

Kyle Brown and Yaro Dunchych

Where does Application Modernization start?

Kyle Brown

The Role of an Agile Architect

Kyle Brown with Darcy Lalor and Shahir Daya

Microservices and Cloud Native Development vs. Traditional Development

Kyle Brown

Building Effective Squads

Kyle Brown

Roles in a Squad

Kyle Brown

Architecture in the Development Lifecycle

Kyle Brown

Rapidly Developing Applications Pt 3: Implementing your Microservices Project

Kyle Brown

Rapidly Developing Applications Pt 6: Designing and Versioning APIs

Kyle Brown

Microservices Decision Guides

Kyle Brown, Roland Barcia, Rich Osowski

Applying the Strangler Application Pattern to Microservices Applications

Kyle Brown

Beyond buzzwords: a brief history of microservices patterns

Kyle Brown

Accessing your on-prem data from Bluemix

Kyle Brown, Arcangelo Di Balsamo, Satya Sreenivas, Federico Spiti, Jeffrey Kwong

Cloud Application Recipes

Paul Bahrs and Kyle Brown

Map Workloads to the Cloud

Ben Fernandes and Kyle Brown

Provide High Availability and Disaster Recovery in IBM Bluemix

Eduardo Patrocinio and Kyle Brown

Refactoring to Microservices Part 3: Roadmap to Services Adoption

Kyle Brown

Refactoring to Microservices Part 2: What to consider when moving your data.

Kyle Brown

Refactoring to Microservices Part 1: Easy places to start when refactoring Java to Microservices

Kyle Brown

Create cognitive plugins for Minecraft with Bluemix, Docker, and Watson, Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4

Kyle Brown, Joseph Kozhaya and Srinivas Cheemalapati

Mobile Development Method Track

Roland Barcia and Kyle Brown

Cloud Native Method Track

Kyle Brown and Rachel Reinitz

Bootcamp Training

Kyle Brown

Center of Competency

Kyle Brown

Refactoring

Kyle Brown

Continuous Delivery

Kyle Brown

Automated Deployment

Kyle Brown

Implementation Patterns for Microservices

Kyle Brown

Designing Software Iteratively

Kyle Brown

Move your Java Application into a Hybrid Cloud using Bluemix Pt 3

Kyle Brown, Ruth Willenborg, Arunava Majumdar

Move your Java Application into a Hybrid Cloud using Bluemix Pt 1

Kyle Brown, Ruth Willenborg

Examining IT as a Process

Kyle Brown

Build a Cloud-Ready Temperature Sensor with the Arduino Uno and the IOT Foundation Pt 2

Kyle Brown

Build a Cloud-Ready Temperature Sensor with the Arduino Uno and the IOT Foundation Pt 1

Kyle Brown

Adoption Scenarios for IBM PureApplication System

Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, Rajeev Gandhi and Venkata Gadepalli

Top 9 Rules for Cloud Applications

Kyle Brown and Mike Capern

Predictive Cache Loading

Kyle Brown

Comment Lines: Pattern deployment lease policies for IBM Workload Deployer and IBM PureApplication System

Kyle Zhu, Helen Yao and Kyle Brown

Backup and Recovery in IBM PureApplication System

Kyle Brown

Achieving Business Continuity in IBM PureApplication System

Kyle Brown and Linwood Overby

Best Practices for Pattern Adoption in IBM PureApplication System

Kyle Brown, Rajeev Gandhi and Venkata Gadepalli

Organizational Structure in PureApplication System Operations

Kyle Brown, Rajeev Gandhi and Venkata Gadepalli

Aligning Organizations to Achieve Integrated Systems Benefits with IBM PureApplication System

Vincent Belfoure, Kyle Brown, Jeffrey Coveyduc, Son Huynh

High Availability Topologies for PureApplication System

Kyle Brown, Andre Tost and Rohith Ashok

Preparing for PureApplication System Part 2: Is your Application ready to become Virtual?

Kyle Brown

Principles and Best Practices for building high performing and highly resilient WebSphere Extreme Scale Applications

Kyle Brown, Stacy Joines, Hiroshi Yamamoto and Billy Newport

Paying back Technical Debt

Kyle Brown

Problem Determination through Defensive Infrastructure Architecture: Part 1: Runtime deployments with queues and ESBs

Kyle Brown and Alex Polozoff

Developing Defensively: Part 1; Defensive Architecture

Kyle Brown and Carolyn Norton

Avoiding three common pain points for XML and Web Services

Kyle Brown

SOA lessons learned for Web 2.0

Kyle Brown, Rachel Reinitz

SOA for the Web

Kyle Brown, Gennaro Cuomo and Jason McGee

Inside the Preferred DataSource Pattern

Greg Flurry , Jim Conallen , Kyle Brown,, Dr. Guenter Sauter , Mei Selvage, Eoin Lane

The Value of Patterns

Eoin Lane, Bob Patten, Kyle Brown, Jim Conallan, Janette Wong and Harini Srinivasan

The Top Java EE Best Practices

Keys Botzum, Kyle Brown, Ruth Willenborg, Albert Wong

 

 
 

Videos and Podcasts

How to avoid the pitfalls of IAC, AWS Insiders Podcast

The Hybrid Cloud Forecast with Andre Tost: Episode 31; Anniversaries

Making of the SRE Omelette Podcast: Episode 16; Reliability Engineering

What is a Pattern? From the 2021 Hillside Pattern Mining workshop

What does Cloud Native really mean? Webinar with Kyle Brown and Kim Clark

Session on Cloud in Regulated Industries

When do you use EDA?

Lowering costs through Modernization

Application Modernization: Where do I start? (IBM Application Modernization Conference 2019 Keynote)

Using Cloud Computing to solve LEGO problems and Customer problems

Financial Services in the Age of Hybrid Cloud

Microservices TV: Operations and Management

Microservices TV: Engineering Site Operations

Microservices TV: CI/CD Automation with Microservices

Solving Business problems with Cloud Architecture

Microservices TV: Strangling the Monolith

Microservices TV: Evolution of Microservices Pt3

Bluemix Production Deployment 101

Microservices TV: Evolution of Microservices Pt2

Microservices TV: Evolution of Microservices Pt1

Crafting the Cloud: Challenges with Microservices Pt 2

Crafting the Cloud: Challenges with Microservices Pt1 1

Client Caching Patterns

Webinar: Navigating Hybrid Cloud with Bluemix

Microservices TV: Onramps to Microservices

WebSphere Migration to the Cloud

Getting Started with Cognitive Computing

Microservices TV: Refactoring Data for Microservices

Microservices TV: Refactoring to Microservices

Q&A on Bluemixathon on apps for Natural disasters

Build life-saving, world-changing apps with Bluemix

Breaking down Barriers to Innovation

Is 2015 the year of the App container?

Composable Business: The new way of doing things

Polyglot Programming on the Cloud

IBM PureApplication Client Experience and Adoption Trends

What's the first step organizations can take to realign their IT organizations?

How can IBM PureApplication help you break away from traditional Silos?

Why are CIO's being challenged to change their IT organizations?

What does an innovative and responsive IT organization look like?

How do roles and responsibilities change for IT Staff with PureSystems?

IMPACT 2014 Preview, Kyle Brown on Organizational Structure in PureApplication System

2 minute video series on PureApplication application onboarding, organizational changes and integrating with the datacenter

Mobile and New Companion Technologies

IBM PureApplication Systems Innovations for Business Continuity

Achieving Maximum Reusability with Patterns of Topologies

IBM PureApplication System Impact on Operations

Evolution of Operational Roles with PureApplication System

This week in DeveloperWorks interview on PureApplication Best Practices

What I did over my Summer vacation, or how social, cloud computing and the internet of things probably saved my life

Shortening the IT Lifecycle with Integrated Systems

PureApplication System, a new paradigm for application development and deployment

 

 

 

 

 

Books

Cloud Adoption Patterns (upcoming)

Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf and Joe Yoder

The Cloud Adoption Playbook

Moe Abdula, Ingo Averdunk, Roland Barcia, Kyle Brown and Ndu Emuchay, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, March 2018

 

Modern Web Development with IBM WebSphere

Kyle Brown, Roland Barcia, Karl Bishop and Matthew Perrins, Pearson Publishing, Reading, MA, July 2014

 

IBM PureApplication System Best Practices

Amit P. Acharya, Tom Bal, Kyle Brown, Srinivas Cheemalapati, Rodrigo Costa, Venkata Gadepalli, Rajeev Gandhi, Erdinc Guler, James Kochuba, Rory O’Grady, Jose Ortiz, IBM Redbook, IBM International Technical Support Organization, February 2014

 

Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies

Geoffrey Hambrick, Kyle Brown, Roland Barcia, Kulvir Bhogal and Robert Peterson, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 2008

 

Java Testing Patterns

Jon Thomas, Matthew Young, Kyle Brown and Andrew Glover, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2004

 

Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere, 2nd Edition 

Kyle Brown, Gary Craig, Greg Hester, Jim Amsden, Mark Weitzel, Daniel Berg, David Pitt & Russ Stinehour, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 2003

 

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building and Deploying Messaging Solutions

Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, with contributions from Kyle Brown, Conrad D’Cruz, Martin Fowler, Sean Neville, Michael Rettig and Jonathan Simon, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 2003

 

Workbook for WebSphere 4.0 AEs for Enterprise Java Beans

Kyle Brown, O’Reilly & Associates, Sebastapol, CA, 2002

 

Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere, Kyle Brown

Gary Craig, Greg Hester, Jaime Niswonger, David Pitt & Russ Stinehour, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 2001

 

The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion

Sherman Alpert, Kyle Brown and Bobby Woolf, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1998