By Paul Preiss Architecturally significant decisions (ASDs) are “the stuff that matters” as Martin Fowler describes it. They describe the scope and boundaries of a decision that will have significant impact on the outcomes of […]
By Paul Preiss The Bounded Context Canvas fits into strategy and execution by helping to develop a shared understanding of a system and its business context we are building. This shared understanding is essential for […]
By Paul Preiss Microservices were too small, SOA was too big. DDS is juuuuust right. I never really bought into the MS hype. It has always looked like adding too much complexity related to benefits. […]
By Paul Preiss When I was a boy I loved legos, as so many architects and engineers did. It was a deeply calming and deeply engaging exercise in creativity. I would build for hours and […]
By Paul Preiss I was just finishing a talk on Living with Legacy, which covers a great number of concepts related to maintainability and viability in legacy systems at UberConf in Denver when all of […]
By Paul Preiss I attend a great number of architectural discussions at all levels of scope. And it is a constant reminder how much humans wish really, really hard to have all that technology complexity […]
The industry constantly struggles with what concepts and competencies architects need to know to call themselves architects. However, we have known this for a very long time, it is just that the industry is willing […]
Quote: “The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.” ― Idowu Koyenikan What Is A Digital Mindset “Employees’ beliefs about technological […]
(Publisher’s Note: I write in one of two capacities; a) my individual opinion based on 20 years of watching architecture teams work or not work, and b) my role as the leader of Iasa the […]
In many of our recent engagements we have been working with our corporate members on their Agile Architecture @ Scale practice. This includes many of their developers and product owners. And while I expect all […]