One of the peculiarities of working as a solution architect in the US is that, unlike in Russia, there’s a different set of technologies, which I had never encountered before. So on one hand, I share my experience and knowledge, and on the other, I eagerly absorb new ones.
Here are the things I’ve touched on in the last four months (some of them quite in-depth; the list doesn’t include things that were familiar before moving to the USA):
* Worldpay (IPSP, not operational in Russia)
* Avalara Tax (operational in Russia, but not as essential)
* OKTA (This is SSO SaaS, built on SAML, quite a good thing, by the way, very international)
* Apache Kafka (a distributed message broker software, originally from LinkedIn)
* AKAMAI (CDN provider, with a good API and capabilities)
* Metapack (simply put – a delivery services aggregator.. transportation management, but can’t be summed up in one sentence)
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 