A daily treasure trove for architects, expanding your view and depth. We share enterprise, business, application, data, technology, and security architecture, discuss frameworks, planning, governance, standards, and implementation, and explore emerging styles such as microservices, event‑driven, micro‑frontend, big data, data warehousing, IoT, and AI architecture.
StackStorm is an open‑source platform that connects existing infrastructure and applications to automate workflows, offering sensors, triggers, actions, rules, and reusable packages for incident response, auto‑remediation, and continuous deployment across cloud and on‑premise environments.
The article explains how enterprise automation should be treated as a strategic, business‑level initiative rather than isolated technical projects, outlines the complexities of coordinating multiple automation efforts across hybrid cloud environments, and highlights Ansible Automation Platform as a comprehensive solution for integrating tools, managing secrets, and measuring ROI.
The article explains the recently released TOGAF 10, highlighting its modular, topic‑centric structure, the various audiences and roles that can benefit from it, the core documents and series guides, and concrete examples of how different practitioners can apply the framework in their organizations.
The second part of the six‑part series analyzes Google Trends data and the Open Group's certification landscape, showing a decline in generic EA terms while specific topics like master data, micro‑services, cloud‑native computing and new TOGAF‑related certifications are gaining interest.
The 2022 mobile app development landscape is shaped by 5G adoption, foldable devices, AR/VR, wearables, food delivery, entertainment, AI/ML, security, super apps, mobile commerce, P2P payments, blockchain, predictive analytics, mobile learning, and IoT‑enabled apps, all driving faster, richer, and more secure user experiences.
This article explains the three main types of roadmaps—technology, product, and capability—how they are created, their interdependencies, and why enterprise architecture should be involved to keep business and technology aligned with strategic goals.
This article outlines twelve essential lessons for successfully defining and implementing business capabilities, covering understanding use cases, stakeholder identification, process differences, continuous communication, strict guidance, reuse of inputs, recognizing concept drawbacks, long‑term expectations, pilot opportunities, expectation management, tool selection, and capability type awareness.
This article provides a concise, high‑level walkthrough of the TOGAF 9.2 framework, its five parts, the Architecture Development Method, key phases such as Requirements Management and the Preliminary Phase, and practical guidance for self‑studying toward the certification exam.
The ambassador pattern introduces an external sidecar proxy that offloads common client‑side networking concerns such as routing, resilience, logging, and security, enabling legacy or hard‑to‑modify applications to gain cloud‑native capabilities without changing their code.
This article reflects on the often‑overlooked discipline of enterprise architecture, highlighting common mistakes such as treating EA as a purely technical function, short‑term focus, executive arrogance, and over‑reliance on outdated frameworks like TOGAF, and proposes using data‑driven, metacognitive tools to guide more valuable, lightweight, and automated architectural practices.
