Architecture Essays Image made by the author 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.… Read the rest
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Architecture Essays Picture made by the author 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…
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Architecture Essays Image by the author from Canva Pro This story elaborates on one of the critical steps of the Agile EA method I laid out in the story below. A Technique for Agile Enterprise Architecture Strategy & PlanningHow to strategise faster for enterprise IT and delight your clients.… Read the rest
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Architecture Essays Image made by the author in SketchWow All business domains and sub-domains have the following functional IT architecture systems in common. Use this for your Architectural Thinking while creating or improving IT solutions. This paradigm gives you the model artefacts for your Architecture Decisions.… Read the rest
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Architecture Techniques Image by the author from Canva Pro A common problem we do not deal with the attention it deserves is the proper specification, design and estimation of IT services and systems availability. The result is the shockingly high number of outages of web portals, mobile applications, and many business support systems not exposed…
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Architecture Essays Image by the author from Canva Pro I was asked recently by the head of a startup that’s providing security analytics to a large company how it could assess where there were gaps. It seemed lost in the various domains, actors, data repositories, applications, and infrastructure.… Read the rest
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It’s an existential quest Photo courtesy Evan Karageorgos from Unsplash I love my profession and the work I do as an architect, especially in enterprise architecture. I also happen to be deeply interested in philosophy, to the extent I’ve developed one and written a book on it.… Read the rest
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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
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The existential threat to my sense of belonging to something grand and good. Image made by the author in Canva Pro ‘My granddad worked for IBM’ is what I’ve imagined my grandkids telling their friends. It has the cachet for me of ‘My granddad worked for NASA’ or (unfortunately, due to the slowness of human…
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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
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