(Spoiler: You Probably Shouldn’t) For decades, the role of the Solution Architect has been revered as the pinnacle of technical achievement, an elite position for those who’ve spent years refining their coding skills, understanding complex systems, and designing elegant solutions. Architects have traditionally been the visionary leaders who shape the future of software, bridging the gap between business strategy…
Architectural Decisions Must Be Backed by Empirical Evidence in Information Technology In the rapidly evolving field of Information Technology (IT), architectural decisions form the bedrock of any successful system or application. These decisions, ranging from choosing a cloud provider to determining the best database architecture, significantly influence an organization’s ability to meet its business goals. Given the high…
In other words, business architecture just became more important — and more difficult. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/architect-your-company-for-agility/ How do you define and contrast Business Architecture from contemporary definitions and perspectives of Enterprise Architecture? Defining and Contrasting Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture & Product Management Roles Business Architecture is a discipline focused on providing strategic guidance, change management, and alignment of…
Business architecture is traditionally an area that doesn’t get the credit I feel it deserves. This tower typically works with the Technical, Data and Solution architects to help translate business strategies into workable and viable technical solutions. Additionally business architecture is relayed on to innovate and look for interesting ways to provide capabilities back to the business. Business architecture…
Keeping up with emerging technologies is a difficult proposition to fulfill on. The pace of change as we pivot away from on-prem datacenters and leverage what the cloud has to offer. Most cloud providers are building specific services that are becoming integral components These new services drive innovation, however they also are proving to lock in the application owner….
Delcline Dicipline of Technical Architecture The shift from on-prem infrastructure to the cloud footprint capabilities become more critical. Because of the inherent shift we need enterprise architecture more than ever. To the contrary, what I have observed with large companies moving to the cloud is a perception that because of the fungible footprint, enterprise architecture is no longer needed….
One of the I am finding in the world is that there is a need for data quality, especially in a federated organization. The problem being that there is not only redundant data, but also an inability to understand the data stored. This seems to compound itself when paired with the idea of big data. Not only do we…
In the world of data architecture there are a couple different roles identified that are often confused. The information architect and the data architect have been used interchangeably in the industry to solve similar problems. These two areas of architecture serve very different purposes for the enterprise. Seth Early, an information consultant defines Data Architects as being focused with…
Future facing cloud is here to stay and Amazon is currently at the pinnacle of cloud computing. AWS, Amazon Web Services provides a menu of pre-packaged computing services. Cloud computing, moreover AWS provides foundational services ripe for the replacement of on-premise datacenters. Since cloud providers can take advantage through the economies of scale leveraging commodity hardware to feed their…
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…
There is an unspoken rule in the modern enterprise:…
Engineering teams are making a massive miscalculation with AI….
