Alethea Studio is a design studio based in Chicago for corporate strategy, and architecture technology consulting. It’s also where you can learn about its principal’s books.
Get Eben’s international best-selling book Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy on Amazon.
Get Eben’s latest book: Semantic Software Design: A New Theory and Practical Guide for Modern Architects on Amazon or Goodreads.
Technology Strategy Patterns
Architecture as Strategy
Author Eben Hewitt developed 39 patterns over the course of a decade in his work as CTO, CIO, and chief architect for several global tech companies. With these proven tools, you can define, create, elaborate, refine, and communicate your architecture goals, plans, and approach in a way that executives can readily understand, approve, and execute. This book covers:
Architecture and strategy: Adopt a strategic architectural mindset to make a meaningful material impact
Creating your strategy: Define the components of your technology strategy using proven patterns
Communicating the strategy: Convey your technology strategy in a compelling way to a variety of audiences
Bringing it all together: Employ patterns individually or in clusters for specific problems; use the complete framework for a comprehensive strategy
—> Get the templates for the book’s patterns and framework here.
With this practical book, architects, CTOs, and CIOs will learn a set of patterns for the practice of architecture, including analysis, documentation, and communication. Author Eben Hewitt shows you how to create holistic and thoughtful technology plans, communicate them clearly, lead people toward the vision, and become a great architect or Chief Architect.
This book covers each key aspect of architecture comprehensively, including how to incorporate business architecture, information architecture, data architecture, application (software) architecture together to have the best chance for the system’s success.
Get a practical set of proven architecture practices focused on shipping great products using architecture
Learn how architecture works effectively with development teams, management, and product management teams through the value chain
Find updated special coverage on machine learning architecture
Get usable templates to start incorporating into your teams immediately
Incorporate business architecture, information architecture, data architecture, and application (software) architecture together
Get the templates for the book here.
Cassandra: The Definitive Guide
Distributed Data at Webscale
Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra’s nonrelational design, with special attention to data modeling. If you’re a developer, DBA, or application architect looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide helps you harness Cassandra’s speed and flexibility.
Understand Cassandra’s distributed and decentralized structure
Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh—the CQL shell
Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model
Develop sample applications using client drivers for languages including Java, Python, and Node.js
Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data
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As principal of Alethea Studio, Eben Hewitt is a regular guest lecturer at Harvard Graduate School extension for courses such as Case Studies in Digital Enterprise. Eben Hewitt’s best-selling book, Technology Strategy Patterns, is taught in courses at Harvard Graduate School, UC Berkeley, Florida Institute of Technology, and others.
Eben Hewitt designs large-scale, mission-critical systems and leads teams to build them. He previously served as Chief Architect and CTO at Sabre Hospitality, CTO at Choice Hotels and CIO of O'Reilly Media.
He has been a consultant to Warburg Pincus on distributed data and a frequent invited speaker at conferences including MIT’s Sloan School of Business CIO conference, Software Architecture (NYC and London), JavaOne, Strange Loop, and many others. Eben was introduced by Walter Isaacson to speak at AH&LA Forum in DC.
Eben Hewitt is the author of several books, including Semantic Software Design (2019), Technology Strategy Patterns (2018), Cassandra: The Definitive Guide (3 editions), Java SOA Cookbook, and others. He is a contributor to the book 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Persian and have been taught at Georgia Tech.
Eben Hewitt is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild and a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. His first full-length play, Mouthbook, was produced in NYC at the Mint Theater and starred Shea Whigham and Kirk Acevedo, directed by Andrew Frank. He is co-creator (book & lyrics) of a full length musical theater piece, Beautiful Things.