Michael Bowers is chief architect at FairCom. He oversees the company’s architecture and product roadmaps, which includes high-performance databases, IIoT platforms and legacy system modernization solutions. He has more than 25 years of experience in software development and architecture. He is the author of “Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns” published by Apress, a member of the INCITS technical committee that develops standards for SQL (structured query language) and GQL (graph query language), and is a frequent speaker at data management conferences.