Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions
As the complexity of our platforms increases, we keep looking for better abstractions. Cloud compilers might help, but only if they include one key feature: the stack trace
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I made everything loosely coupled. Will my cloud bill go up?
Loose coupling is an essential property of fine-grained, event-driven systems. However, cloud resources that decouple event producers and consumers incur a run-time cost. How to weigh the trade-offs?
Moving to the Engine Room - For real
When working for a product company, there’s no better place than working on product.
Debugging Architects
Whether architects must code or not has been much debated. Why not try debugging?
Transformation Agents: An Engagement Model
No one can transform an organization from the outside. But on the inside you’re bound by legacy rules. Catch-22?
Every Constraint is an Opportunity
You can make transformation lemonade from organizational lemons–sweetened up with the right dose of creativity.
Good abstractions are obvious but difficult to find, even in the cloud
Cloud automation using object-oriented languages gives us the power of abstraction. But those abstractions aren’t easy to come by.
Concerned about Serverless Lock-in? Consider Patterns!
Design patterns have helped us improve software design for decades. In the cloud, they can also reduce our switching cost. That’s magic!
Multi-cloud: From Buzzword to Decision Model
Architects aren’t there to make all decisions. They use models to help others make better decisions, including whether to multi-cloud or not.
Winning the IT Race With Initial D
Once again we can learn about IT strategy and architecture from popular culture: the engine room matters.
The Quest for Low-Code: 9 paths, some of which actually work
No-code, low-code has become a popular quest. Architects are called in to separate fact from fiction. No French were harmed.
Back from the engine room
Architects dive deep to come back up with new insights. Here’s is what I brought back from the serverless cloud integration engine room.
Would you like architects with your architecture?
How to architect your organization to do architecture with or without architects.
Giant Leaps Rarely Happen
Success comes in small dosages.