A good architect can see how something would work and also how it might not work. It’s the gaps and the blind spots in a seemingly good architecture that will completely de-rail an entire program. Gaps in an architecture sometimes […]
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CQRS Performance Design Pattern Demystified
The command and query responsibility segregation (CQRS) pattern is a pattern that can be deployed as part of microservices and other architectures. This pattern is often overlooked by architects and development teams even though it is a well documented pattern. Even […]
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 […]
Ensuring Your Tactical State Architecture is Practical
When building out architecture (solution/software/integration/digital/etc architecture), it’s important to consider if the context of the architecture fits into tactical or not. What’s a tactical architecture? I define tactical architecture as “temporary” architecture that gets the business to a reasonable target […]
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 […]
Using API Management for Rest API Orchestration
When architecting software solutions, you will have a variety of different use cases to contend with. It’s important that these use cases are handled elegantly as part of the solution and as part of your API management strategy, and this […]
The Problem with Mandating Enterprise Target State Architecture
In attempt to standardize, future proof, and keep up with technology standards, organizations are challenged to provide a set of standards in how solutions are architected and implemented. This is reasonable, and I’ve often been tasked with creating and working […]