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Expert Architecture Techniques No humanmade system is immune to failure. However robust we make a service, it will go down sometime. What we architects need to do is deliberately design services to recover quickly. Here’s how, from my experience in architecting and improving resilience in IT systems. Let’s first sort out the terms. Resilience is …
Architecture essays Senior IT leaders of companies (and, on happy occasions, business heads) regularly ask me how to set up enterprise architecture in their organisations. Sometimes they enquire informally, and at other times, through proposal requests. Having established enterprise architecture for several companies, I am sharing my method for anyone interested in learning or using …
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Architecture essays Organisations that promote standards, new ideas and community are vital to the health and growth of any profession. This article is a brief introduction to five organisations that, in my experience, consistently and ably boost IT Architecture skills and practice by supporting: Become a member of these bodies and check if your organisation …
Architecture essays I practise, teach, and write about architecture. The books below are by giants on whose shoulders I stand. Don’t just bookmark this article; get them in paperback or for Kindle and read them. Trust me, not one of them is dry or boring. Even if you don’t love architecture and it’s just a …
An architecture essay In this article, I will describe the typical data repositories in the IT landscape of an enterprise and how they come into being. It’s an elaboration of a part of the earlier essay linked below. You need not have read it to get some value from this essay, but if you do, …
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A primer After writing many blogs and articles about architecture, I realised I needed to explain precisely what architecture is. It was remiss of me as some may need to know, and others may be curious. I am describing it here. Let’s look at architecture’s origins, value, definitions, disciplines, methods, artefacts, governance, and profession. Origins …
Architecture essays The perspective IT systems interact and therefore integrate for the same reasons as people. The corresponding IT examples are an API call for a query, an operation, and a keep-alive ping/health check (with AI, true socialising between IT systems may also appear). They are also the most to the least common types of …
Architecture Essays Introduction This article is for IT architects open to a powerful method that delivers better solutions for their clients. It is achieved by infusing essential features of Domain Driven (software) Design (DDD) into the sphere of IT Architecture Design. I’ve called the resulting form Domain-Driven Architecture Design, or DDAD for short. [Please note …
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Architecture Essays Why do we need information technology? Let’s begin at the beginning and check why we need IT and this article at all. Humans do many things for survival, growth and reproduction. Hunting, gathering, farming, mining, converting raw materials into goods, transporting goods for use and exchange, creating and using money, playing, and entertaining …
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Architecture Essays This story elaborates on one of the critical steps of the Agile EA method I laid out in the story below. It focuses on Step 3 — Map Hot Spots to IT Area Reference Architectures. It involves two types of preparation, guidelines and gap analysis. A. Prepare With the Client and Stakeholders B. …
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