The craft, properly applied, prevents drama. Robert McCall – Vision of Utopia Architecture puts compatible components together to deliver valuable functions. It aims to do this with the highest possible quality, at the lowest possible long-term cost. An expert architect will avoid predictable issues and predict unavoidable ones from experience.… Read the rest
Free image from pexels.com An elegant architecture to merge the Cloud and the Internet-of-Everything. For many large and old enterprises, there is no getting away imminently from private data centres. They are adopting public cloud, yet they need to run core workloads that cannot be easily migrated to a public cloud.… Read the rest
An 8m podcast on the recommended route, with the transcript. Image made by the author https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7wbq6q/HowToBecomeAnEnterpriseArchitect.mp3 Podcast Transcript Do you want to become an Enterprise Architect? This episode is about how you can, wherever you may be in your Information Technology career today.… Read the rest
An EA technique. There are three reasons an organisation adopts Enterprise Architecture or makes the best use of it for transformations: Expansion — When an organisation needs to scale up significantly, Enterprise Architecture ensures it will happen smoothly, quickly, and cost-effectively. Diversification — A company may diversify its products or services organically or by acquiring or merging…
Power your way to the crucial answers for your solution. Free image from pexels A Podcast with transcript and slides. Today I am going to talk to you about the three most powerful architecture decisions. The little backstory first: I transitioned into architecture in the year 2001. My… Read the rest
Practical and consistent conventions from my experience Free image from Wikimedia Commons Architecture is a discipline. It is also a device that assists in thinking and communication. As the latter, architecture deals with the static and dynamic structure of an overall system through models constructed of defined components, their external features and relationships.… Read the rest
It’s under every need and behind every want Image from Wikimedia commons Good architecture sells — things, services and experiences. Selling to the world An enterprise is a box from which flows the fount of valuables it creates for its customers. Businesses spew out every object produced in the world: phones, planes, pyjamas, pizzas, pumps, penicillin, paper… They…
A guide must go there before There are lots of books with complicated recipes to influence, convince, win or be a leader. But it all boils down to this — true friendship and preparation. I’ve seen this work so many times, so unfailingly, that I have thrown away all the recipes, methods and techniques I learnt over…
The new world of ubiquitous computing Free image from Wikimedia Commons The IT clouds of the world are proliferating, growing, fragmenting, combining, integrating and swirling together into a mist that envelopes the planet. There are hundreds of Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google and Oracle clouds that are spreading across all continents — Giga-clouds.… Read the rest
