What is the Architecture of a Modern Platform?

Platform businesses require technology that promotes interoperability and scalability.  For those who live in platform companies day-to-day, my thinking below may sound obvious, but for those who are thinking about a cloud journey, the list of technologies below may be helpful.Storage and compute functionality in the cloud enables agility via " infrastructure as code " products such asTerraform.   Terraform enables virtual server spin up on demand within applications to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service.  Each cloud provider has strengths.   Customers like Google Cloud Platform because of BigQuery, which scales infinitely.  Customers like Amazon because of the tools like Comprehend Medical and Sagemaker.  Customers like Azure because of its integration with existing Microsoft components. Similarly, database functionality such as MySQL or PostgreSQL can be rapidly deployed using a front end service such asGoogle ' s SQL Cloud that makes it easy to set up, maintain, manage, and administer relational databases on Google Cloud Platform.Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google, and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. For healthcare applications, it ' s clear that Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) interfaces for inbound and outbound data exc...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs