9 February 2023
The potential benefits of an architecture based on serverless functions are nuanced, making it a good fit only for some very specific use cases.
10 December 2022
When any technology emerges, it can be challenging to chart a course between the unhelpful hype and the disappointment that is bound to follow…
14 November 2022
Internal developer platforms are supposed to be so compelling that engineering teams will flock to them, but are we givng teams any real choice?
12 June 2022
Adopting inner source is more than just a matter of putting a project into GitHub and accepting pull requests.
17 May 2022
Larger organisations are beset with complexity that can’t be fully addressed by autonomous teams focusing on value. At least frameworks like SAFe recognise this and attempt to offer solutions based on experience.
6 February 2022
If we’re serious about empowering engineering teams to make decisions, then we should be embedding architectural skills rather than architects themselves.
10 January 2022
The data mesh is doing for data warehousing what microservices did for solution architecture…
28 October 2021
Having experienced technology selections as vendor, consultant, and customer, I have seen how some common mistakes can undermine clear decision making.
18 July 2021
“Low code” and “no code” platforms may be perfectly adequate for simple use cases, but they can make complex problems far more difficult to solve…
13 June 2021
A good set of architectural principles can help to scale development by laying down some basic guidelines for decision making.
12 December 2020
Data Vault 2.0 modelling can support a more agile approach to data warehouse design and data ingestion. Inevitably, this flexibility does come with a heavy burden of complexity.
20 November 2020
A technology radar can be a great technique for initiating conversations about technology, but there are some challenges in applying it to in-house development shops.
24 August 2020
There can be a tension between the lean, experimental nature of agile development and the more deliberate, planned demands of a large organisation. It does not have to be like this.
22 July 2020
“Legacy” is often used a pejorative term to describe any long-lived code base that a development team finds distasteful to work with. What do we really mean by “legacy” and how should we be dealing with it?
11 March 2020
The discipline of architecture is an important part of any efficient engineering organisation. It just needs to adapt its game from the process-orientated “Enterprise Architecture” of old to something more collaborative and relevant.