The vision for Event Driven Architecture is genuinely compelling. Build your systems around business events. When something meaningful happens in a domain — a payment is made, an account is opened, a limit is breached — the fact is published, post fact. Other domains consume it. They react. They choreograph. No tight coupling. No synchronous…
I’ve been thinking about what makes architecture leadership different. Not harder. Not more important. Just different. The architecture role sits in a unique position in most CIO functions – accountable for outcomes architects don’t control, working on timescales organizations don’t recognize, having expertise constantly questioned by people who aren’t architects. This creates leadership challenges that…
Every business wants AI in everything. Every transformation now has “AI-enabled” in the business case. Every stakeholder meeting includes the question: “But what about AI?” There seems to be an omnipresent expectation to integrate AI or adopt AI in everything. The expectation that architects will somehow make everything “AI-powered” is growing. But here’s what nobody’s…
Ask anyone outside technology what a software architect does, and you’ll get remarkably similar answers: “They design systems.” “They make technical decisions.” “They draw diagrams.” Sometimes even the unflattering “They just draw boxes.” Ask most people inside technology – developers, product managers, even executives – and you’ll get slightly more sophisticated versions of the same…