Let’s clean up this ecological pollution Image made by the author in Canva Pro By 2030 the ubiquitous mobile towers will be as anachronistic as candle-lit homes. They are ugly, expensive, take up precious space, consume increasingly dear power and fuel and pollute the environment for decades.… Read the rest
For ironclad integrity Free image from Wikimedia Commons Inspired by the Hippocratic, I have formed the oath below for architects. I’ve sworn it. It is in the name of Imhotep, the father of architecture. I propose the Ankh and Sceptre symbol for the guild of architects, with the kind permission of Egypt.… Read the rest
Free image from Wikimedia Commons Architecture puts things together to give us useful functions of the highest possible quality, at the lowest possible long-term cost. In its best form, it wants to do this proactively and in a controlled manner. So architecture abhors heroes becoming necessary and considers it a personal failure if it happens….… Read the rest
It is not a golden hammer for IT integration. Free image from Unsplash.com An Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) product makes up for deficiencies in Services and the Clients. A mature Service Oriented Architecture minimises the need for it. Traditionally called an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), its most important features are listed below.… Read the rest
How to create order from disorder faster. Free image from Unsplash.com At regular intervals, we architects need to clean up a messy situation. Systems proliferate like weeds. Integrations become a tangle of underground and aerial roots. Databases and file systems bloat up like fat potatoes.… Read the rest
Hype and jargon can do real damage. Everyone is a solutions expert nowadays, everyone almost an architect. What puts the wind in the sails of a charlatan is buzzwords. There is a great seduction to them. Of course he knows what Cloud is, or Big Data, or Internet of Things, or Industry 4.0.… Read the rest
