Although they are not typically bound by a regulatory body, Enterprise and Solution Architects should always take on a fiduciary responsibility and commitment to the organizations they work and partner with — this especially goes for consultants, recruiters, and professional […]
Enterprise Architecture
Clearing up Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Confusion
As I work with different teams, there is often some confusion about what people mean when they say “DR”. Team discussions will delve into RPO, RTO, Backup, High Availability, and Business Continuity. Unfortunately, these concepts get mixed up and confused […]
Challenging previously held beliefs and moving forward with architectural “anti-patterns” in the enterprise
Nobody claims to like anti-patterns, and I certainly don’t like them. In fact, when it comes to architecture and solutioning, we identify them, make sure we understand why they are bad, and then we avoid them. We help others to […]
Six Key Traits of Successful Solution Architect Consultants
I have been thinking about some of the qualities that make up good solution architects. I believe I’ve come up with a short list of the best qualities to expect from a solution architect. This list is not exhaustive, but […]
Architecting Your Enterprise APIs Into a Set of API Experiences and the Demise of the Monolithic API
As organizations move to API-lead approaches to architecture and design new API target states for the organization, the concept of a set of publishing a set of experience based API services no doubt come into play. API Management application vendors […]