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
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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
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Let’s be aware of these and fight the good fight for our solution. Free image from Unsplash.com In the previous post I considered what happens after you have worked out an architecture on paper. In this one I consider the threats during its working out in the first place.… Read the rest
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Let’s be ready for these and fight the good fight for our solution. Free image from Unsplash.com You are a trained architect. You are experienced. You work out the best architecture for something, methodically. Are you done? Can we implement it now?… Read the rest
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If you’ve got it, keep it in view and stay true to it. Free image from Unsplash.com If you are a Certified Architect then display your Certificate where you work. Not for vanity but because you have taken the effort to become more productive and a competent body has verified it.… Read the rest
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Creating order out of chaos Free image from Unsplash.com Entropy is a measure of the disorder or randomness of a system. It is also defined as the amount of energy unavailable to do work. Entropy always increases with time (2nd law of Thermodynamics).… Read the rest
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Maxims from my experience. Free image from Unsplash.com This is not to define architecture. There are many definitions, some of them more useful than others. This is not to lay down a formal method for practising architecture. There are quite a few.… Read the rest
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