Welcome to the website, blog, et cetera, of Wayne Horkan (my LinkedIn profile). I’m a technologist and engineer, typically working in enterprise architecture and systems engineering. Mainly I design systems for people. Occasionally I even build them. I also help out at the IET with their Digital Panel.

Currently, I work for Cyber Tzar (our company website) providing vision and technology leadership. Cyber Tzar makes a dang wicked Cyber Risk Management platform, but, obviously, I would say that.

My current favourite quote (from my son, Andy): “Straight out of the genius bucket!”

Places you can find me and Cyber Tzar:

• Wayne Horkan on LinkedIn
• Wayne Horkan on X/Twitter
• Cyber Tzar Company Website
• Cyber Tzar on LinkedIn
• Cyber Tzar on X/Twitter

I like to talk about:

• Neurodiversity
• Literature
• Cyber – Opens in a new browser window (these articles are on the Cyber Tzar blog)
• Technology
• Economy
• Code
• Tech Opinion

My favourite and most read articles are:

• Cool Hand Luke as a Christian Allegory: Drawing Parallels Between Luke and Jesus, and Dragline and Saul/St. Paul
• The Master and Margarita: Unveiling a Literary Masterpiece’s Historical Tapestry
• FasterTrading 2008 and the fragmentation of the UK and European Trade Markets
• Cloud Relationship Model
• Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
• Ephemeralization & Information Overload
• Alcohol in Cinema: A Temporal Reflection through “Some Came Running,” “Days of Wine and Roses”, and “Leaving Las Vegas”
• Key Criticisms of the Server Side Public License (SSPL)
• “Desiderata” by Max Ehhrman
• Critical Analysis of “Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leaders” by Siva Vaidhyanathan
• No Shit Sherlock: The Overdue Collapse of NFT Mania
• Alan Mather’s 2003 ‘Enterprise Architecture in Government’ white paper available online
• Simon Freeman, ex Chief Architect of the Government Gateway, responds to “Evolution of UK Government Messaging Systems”
• Three part investigation of UK Government Messaging Systems (from 2009)
  • Messaging Sub-Systems in the UK Government
  • Comparison of Major Messaging Sub-Systems in the UK Government
  • Evolution of UK Government Messaging Systems
• Industry contributions to the UK economy and investment in R&D; by industry
• Dr. James Martin’s ‘Target Earth’, the 2008 Turing Lecture
• Guide to Posting on Twitter based on the 2023 Source Code Disclosure

There’s also a slew of articles that I migrated over from my old Sun Microsystems Blog too, including:

• Government Messaging Systems
• Cloud Computing
• Faster Trading
• Roller Weblogger
• UK Economy
• Enterprise Architecture

Please note: some of the links in these converted articles may refer back to the saved version on the “Internet Archive: Way Back Machine” (where I gathered some of them as Oracle had deleted the Sun blogs, yay Oracle, snore).

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