My Technology Collection
By: Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Tags: Technology, Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, Writing, Design

I am a technology leader, inventor, and entrepreneur in technology, cognitive science, and digital content development fields with four decades of experience. I have been practising and researching technology in academia and industry. My Enterprise Architecture experience was certified at the distinguished level and Design Thinking expertise rated as a thought leader and influencer in the industry.

Apart from researching the technology field as a scholar and documenting my findings, I am a hands-on practitioner and a dedicated learner reading from the body of knowledge voraciously. Not only show guidance to aspiring entrepreneurs as a mentor and development coach, but I am also a humble protege of many great technology leaders in the industry and academia.

I see myself as a technologist working in large corporate organizations within the last four decades. Since I started at a young age with an informatics degree earned by a scholarship in Europe, technology evolved, and every single day added a new meaning to my life.

While technology stresses some of us, it plays a different role in my life. It relaxes and uplifts me. The pieces of technology nourish my brain cells and keep me active and joyful.

I chose technology as a profession to deal with both human and machine intelligence. I attempted to be a polymath and am still working on it. I am educated both as a technologist and scientist.

From the technology point of view, I cover breadth, including an extensive array of technology domains with depth in some specialized areas such as Big Data, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Cognitive Computing, and IoT.

I work as an Enterprise Architect, certified at a distinguished level by the Open Group. From the scientific perspective, I cover machine and human intelligence under the discipline of cognitive science.

I have been consuming insights from the body of knowledge for my profession. Technology knowledge turned out to become a hobby for a long time. During my studies, I started contributing to the body of knowledge in various formats, such as papers, articles, books, and blogs. I published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, delivered keynotes, and am recognized as an inventor with multiple patents.

In this story, I want to introduce and share my recent technology-related articles, presenting them in a single story. This story allows my readers to find my leadership stories easily.

I aim to share my knowledge and experience of outstanding technical and technology leadership.

I am founder and editor in chief of Technology Hits on Medium.

You are welcome to join this sensational publication.

Please enjoy my selected stories touching various aspects of technology.

Ethical Hacking

Topics — #Cybersecurity #Security #Career

In this article, I aim to create awareness on ethical hacking, its purpose, use cases, and a brief introduction to the role of ethical hackers in digital transformation initiatives. My goal is to help security executives and managers choose the best ethical hackers for their business. As a by-product, the information in this article can also guide the aspiring ethical hackers to build their skills and plan their experience.

Power of Design Thinking for Writers

Topics — #Writing #Design #Design Thinking

Design Thinking can be useful for writers too. This is my main premise in this short article. Writers can use Design Thinking principles for quality, simplicity, and agility purposes. Design Thinking can be considered as an innovative problem-solving technique with close interactions of the actual users of the solutions. As writers, one of our fundamental roles is to solve problems for our readers and delight them.

Business Value and Architectural Overview of Robotics Process Automation

Topics — #Artificial Intelligence #Automation #Robotics #Business

In this article, my aim is to briefly introduce what Robotics Process Automation (RPA) is, it’s business value, the major use cases, how it works, how we can enhance it, and my experience on architecting solutions to meet the customer requirements. If you are tired of performing tedious and repetitive tasks and witnessing too many errors upsetting your clients, your business may need the use of Robotics Process Automation empowered by software robots and the capabilities artificial intelligence.

Cognitive Transformation

Topics #Artificial Intelligence #Cognition #Transformation #AI

The purpose of this article is to briefly introduce to you what cognitive computing entails, its current progress in the industry, the value proposition for its necessity, and my personal observations and thoughts on trends and future plans. Most of us in the IT industry most likely heard, read about, or already started working with the cognitive systems for various practical use cases. Would you like to have a quick taste? Then, keep reading! I simplified this complex topic as much as possible in this article.

Business Architecture Framework for Digital Transformation

Topics #Software Engineering #Leadership #Programming

In order to create effective business architecture for complex digital transformation programs, we must follow an established yet innovative framework. A framework is a basic structure underlying a business and technology system. Our framework can start with understanding the organizational structure of the business. This framework can include multiple considerations and business viewpoints. Business organizations are made up of stakeholders with different roles focusing on common goals.

Introduction to IoT Ecosystem

Topics #IoT #Design #Infrastructure #Technology

My aim in this article is to introduce IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystem based on a model that I developed as part of my solution architecture engagements in multiple successful projects in large business organisations. I set the IoT solution context at high level as understanding the solution context can help us delve into architectural and design topics in a methodical way. Every solution requires following a method to leverage prior experience in the field. This also helps us ensure that nothing falls into cracks during the solution lifecycle.

Digital Transformation

Topics #Digital Transformation #Technology

Business organisations are facing enormous challenges to respond to the rapid technological changes and growing demands of consumers for digital products and services globally. There is a constant search to find solutions to the growing business problems. From my experience, the most optimal solution to address these problems is to architect enterprise digital transformation requirements and objectives. My approach, in this article, is to propose an innovative model and framework formulated and described in a 12-step architectural method called DTM.

Architecting Data Lake Solutions

Topics #Data Architect #Data Science #Design

In this article I provide an overview of data lakes, data ponds, , and data swamps from an architectural perspective. My aim is to provide business value, use cases, architectural, design, and implementation, and consumption considerations for data lakes. Use of data lakes became the de-facto standard for Big Data Analytics platforms supporting the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives. Majority of the Big Data and Analytics solutions require consideration of a data lake architectural model. Most of my recent digital transformation initiatives involve data lake solutions to support IoT, Mobility, and AI goals.

Design Thinking for Technical Excellence

Topics #Design Thinking #Design #Leadership #Technology

As an Enterprise Architect, I practice Design Thinking in my daily solution design activities, team interactions, user requirements gathering, and business stakeholder management. Modern business initiatives require adoption of design thinking to their core culture to compete, thrive, and sustain their services with agility. Design thinking can be applied to any discipline.

How To Deal With Big Data For AI?

Topics #AI #Artificial Intelligence #Big Data #Data #Design

In this article, I provide a pragmatic architectural overview of the Big Data management lifecycle covering the distinct phases and essential definitions with critical solution considerations based on my architectural experience acquired from many successful and failed projects. I learnt that architecting Big Data solutions pragmatically with rigour can substantially contribute to the delivery of quality AI and Cognitive solutions especially in enterprise modernisation and digital transformation programs. These transformative programs are empowered by Big Data and AI, integrated with other emerging technology domains e.g. Cloud, Edge, IoT, Blockchain, and Mobile technologies.

Free Online Technology Courses

Topics #Education #Learning #Courses #Technology

In this post, I want to introduce free learning programs by industry experts and industry skill badges offered by the Cognitive Class AI to help you boost your data science, machine learning, cognitive computing, cloud computing, deep learning, Blockchain, programming, open-source tools, and artificial intelligence capabilities online at your convenience in 2020. Continuous learning and applying our knowledge can be powerful and critical success factors for achieving our professional goals. The Cognitive Class AI offers a wide variety of professional learning paths, as free of charge, to learners globally. In this article, I provide you with some prominent learning path samples with links so that you commence achieving your 2020 professional education and career development goals.

A Modern Enterprise Architecture Approach

Topics #Enterprise Architecture #Design #Technology

My purpose to author this book was to provide essential guidance, compelling ideas, and unique ways to Enterprise Architects so that they could successfully perform complex enterprise modernization initiatives transforming them from chaos to coherence. This is not a theory book describing Enterprise Architecture in detail. There are myriad of books on the market and in libraries discussing details of enterprise architecture.

The Blockchain

Topics #Blockchain #Security #Digital Trust

Is the Blockchain panacea to address manipulation problems and illuminate the world with true trust? Can we enable Artificial Intelligence without the Blockchain? Can we start developing the Blockchain application? Let’s explore! In this article, my aim is to introduce what the Blockchain is without hype, its importance with facts, its architecture for autonomous systems, compelling use cases it presents, business value proposition, the technologies and processes behind it, learning and development opportunities, current progress for its deployment, future plans for integrating it to our lives to better understand it and gain more insights about its value proposition.

Digital Twin Solutions

Topics #Digital Twins #IoT #Internet #AI #Big Data

In this article, I want to introduce Digital Twin concept as an emerging technology used in various industries. My aim is to give an overview and shed lights on this emerging technology, architectural construct, and business initiative based on my experience. I explain the digital twin concept using the Cyber-Physical System architecture, business use cases, and value proposition.Digital Twin concept is simple however manifesting them in reality can be complex and difficult to due to combination of underlying technology stacks, tools, and integration requirements. Therefore, a structured and methodical approach to the topic is essential.

Power of the Edge Computing

Topics #Edge Computing #Cloud Computing #Big Data

The purpose of this article is to introduce the Edge Computing as a functional and non-functional extension to the IoT (Internet of Things) and the Cloud Computing service model. The Edge Computing is a powerful extension to the Cloud and the IoT based Big Data Analytics projects. Let me set the context by giving you a brief background on the Cloud and the IoT relationship, then introduce the Edge Computing in this context. We all know the recent trends for the Cloud Computing. The Cloud marked a paradigm shift to Information Technology and Computing field. The IoT Cloud is a critical player in the data ecosystem of large business organisations. The central role the Cloud plays in the IoT is to facilitate data integration of the solution components effectively. IoT solutions are mainly used to provide real-time information to consumers.

Big Data as a Service

Topics #Big Data #BDaaS #Cloud Computing

In this article, I want to introduce the business value, architecture, use cases, deployment, and service model of Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) which is a novel and rapidly growing Cloud-based service. The service is offered to support big data and analytics solutions in a cost-effective manner. This service can be considered as a type of outsourcing model for the deployment of big data and analytics projects rapidly and inexpensively. It is considered inexpensive because we can use the service without upfront investment for costly underlying infrastructure hosting the big data and analytics solutions. Underlying infrastructure costs can include computing servers, storage, network, appliances, racks, hosting facilities, and more importantly infrastructure management and support costs.

Viability Assessment for IoT Solutions

Topics #IoT #Architecture #Design

In this article, I aim to introduce a critical architectural and design tool to validate feasibility of IoT (Internet of Things) solutions across the project lifecycle. I attempt to explain what this tool does, why we need to use it, and how we create, document, analyze, and communicate it to relevant stakeholders of the IoT solutions. Viability Assessment is a critical architectural and design tool to meet business organization’s standards, solution requirements, use cases, project quality criteria, industry compliance, and consumer expectations. This article provides awareness for IoT solution architects to use this tool effectively. Without applying proper viability assessment, IoT projects can most certainly fail! As solution architects and designers, we use a viability assessment work-product, which exists in many proprietary and open-source architectural solution methods. We can either use a viability assessment work-product template from an established open-source method such as TOGAF or our business organization’s proprietary method

IoT, Big Data, & Cloud Computing

Topics #IoT #Big Data #Cloud Computing

IoT (Internet of Things), Big Data Analytics, and Cloud Computing are three distinct technology domains with overlapping use cases. Each technology has its own merits; however, the combination of three creates a synergy and the golden opportunity for businesses to reap the exponential benefits. This combination can create technological magic for innovation when adequately architected, designed, implemented, and operated. In this post, my aim is to provide relationships among IoT, Big Data Analytics, and the Cloud Computing as detailed in one of my recent books titled Architecting Big Data & Analytics Solutions — Integrated with IoT & Cloud.

Big Data Lifecycle Management

Topics #Big Data #Data Platforms #Data Architecture

In this article, I want to provide an architectural overview of the Big Data lifecycle management based on key points extracted from my recent book titled “Architecting Big Data & Analytics Solutions — Integrated with IoT & Cloud”. Understanding this process is essential to architect and design Big Data solutions. Big data is different from traditional data. The main differences come from characteristics such as volume, velocity, variety, veracity, value and overall complexity of data sets in a data ecosystem. Understanding these V words provide useful insights into the nature of Big Data.

I want to share a few technology articles on other platforms.

A Technical Overview of Internet of Things (IoT)

What is Edge Computing?

Robotics Process Automation

Big Data Lifecycle Management

What Is Business Architecture?

Digital Twins

How to Become an Ethical Hacker

Design Thinking for Writers

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