We find ourselves at the intersection of a massive infrastructure paradox: we are attempting to architect an ethereal future of autonomous, agentic intelligence upon a physical foundation that is visibly straining under the weight of its own ambition. As the ‘Planned’ data center capacity in the United States prepares to surge toward 90 gigawatts – a staggering monument to…
Profits are alarmingly good, but it drives all the wrong behaviors for a sustainable future.
~ The technological landscape is evolving at a breakneck pace. Artificial intelligence (AI) and Cloud-Native application development are no longer emerging trends; they are foundational pillars of modern digital transformation. In this era of rapid innovation, some might question the continued relevance of traditional enterprise architecture (as exemplified by frameworks like TOGAF). Is it an outdated relic, a bureaucratic…
The pressure to implement configuration-driven business rules at the entry point API stems from several factors: However, giving in to this pressure can quickly erode the benefits of adopting a platform approach. Revisiting the Platform’s Ideal: Entry Point vs. Downstream Processing The power of the platform, particularly for something like a payment hub dealing with external ecosystems, comes from…
I wanted to critique the article in CIO magazine titled “The Case Against Cloud Computing” making note the differences between the when the article was written and today’s cloud landscape. The article was written in 2010, which in information technology is much like dog-years. The article goes into five key areas that are impediments to adoption. They are as…
Cloud Technology Stack Pivoting away from the traditional on-prem infrastructure, technology stacks have become more and more homogenous. This has created interesting ways to support resilient postures in the cloud. Resiliency for an on-premise datacenter leverages both software and hardware architectures to achieve that posture. Cloud has shift that paradigm by creating resilient services, effectively shifting the technical…
This weeks readings look at the technology stack from an EA perspective. These areas of interest span Business, Data, Application and Infrastructure. Affecting the way we think about these areas as enterprise architects, the cloud changes that paradigm. Cloud hosting providers have taken the core infrastructure functions, like compute, storage and network, and manage them as a commodity. This…
Cloud Based Infrastructure and the Future of EA Cloud computing is turning the IT world upside down and especially for areas like Enterprise Architecture who seeks to provide value from the knowledge base of seasoned professionals. The practice itself is threatened, not so much by traditional structures of communication and governance but by a lack of agility within the practice….
It began, in the public imagination at least, with…
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