by Dave McComb | Mar 8, 2022 | Software Architecture, The Whiteboard
I’m reading the book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti. It is a delightful book. Plenty of pragmatic advice, both on the architectural side (how to think through whether and when to break up that monolith) and the organizational side (how to get and maintain...
by Dave McComb | Nov 3, 2021 | The Whiteboard
There is a meme floating around out in the internet ether these days: “Is OWL necessary, or can you do everything you need to with SHACL?” We use SHACL most days and OWL every day and we find it quite useful. It’s a matter of scope. If you limited your scope to...
by Dave McComb | Sep 9, 2021 | The Whiteboard
What is a Market? The term “market” is a very common term in the business industry. We talk about the automotive market, the produce market, the disk drive market, etc. And yet, what do we really mean when we use that term? It is an instructive...
by Dave McComb | Sep 1, 2021 | The Whiteboard
Gartner has put “Knowledge Graphs” at the peak of inflated expectations. If you are a Knowledge Graph software vendor, this might be good news. Companies will be buying knowledge graphs without knowing what they are. I’m reminded of an old cartoon of an executive...
by Dave McComb | Aug 17, 2021 | The Whiteboard
The Enterprise Ontology At the time of this writing almost no enterprises in North America have a formal enterprise ontology. Yet we believe that within a few years this will become one of the foundational pieces to most information system work within...
