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Nihar Malali

Principal Solutions Architect / Senior Director at National Life Group

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Do you trust the data & reports from the big analysts?

Strategy & Architecture

Yes

No

Sometimes

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Which messaging queue is the best?

Cloud Applications & Platforms

RabbitMQ

Amazon SQS

Apache Kafka

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

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Have you been in situations in a new company or role, where you needed to assess the current technical debt, but did not want to appear to be critical of your predecessor? How did you navigate this?

Culture & Values Internal CXO Relationships

Nihar MalaliPrincipal Solutions Architect / Senior Director at National Life Group in Insurance (except health)3 months ago

Wow, this is tough, and I have a few thoughts, but I hope they don't come off as too obvious or high level.
- First off, I think the best way to NOT be critical of your predecessor is to take the view that the current ...read more

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How closely do you monitor the number of purchased applications in use in your organization? If there are too many, how do you determine which apps to keep and which ones to cut?

Enterprise Applications IT Strategy & Roadmap

Nihar MalaliPrincipal Solutions Architect / Senior Director at National Life Group in Insurance (except health)3 months ago

We have an Enterprise Architecture practice to maintain the application portfolio both external/commercially purchased and homegrown. Modernization initiatives ongoing keep assessing what applications to keep and what to ...read more

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