The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect’s Role in the Digital Enterprise 📢 Really enjoyed reading The Software Architect Elevator by Gregor Hohpe during our late-summer holidays in Germany. The book was published in 2020, before the new AI wave, so it might seem a little “old” at first glance – but there are good

🪵 There’s a woodpecker on the cover of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts. Probably just a coincidence. O’Reilly doesn’t pick cover animals based on the topic. Still, I like the idea that it’s there for a reason. A woodpecker keeps hitting the same hard spot until something gives. That reminded me of something from chess

AI is getting remarkably good at the HOW. It can generate code, propose architectures, compare design patterns, and automate implementation.That’s exactly why architects need to become even better at the WHY. If I could rename the role, I’d jokingly call it Problem Architect instead of Solution Architect. 🙂 Not because solutions aren’t important, but because

I really enjoyed rereading Chapter 12 of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod S. and Zhamak Dehghani (O’Reilly 2022) this May holiday🌞. That chapter is about Transactional Sagas, and I couldn’t resist turning it into a short post 🙂. The authors take the forces of communication, consistency, and coordination and turn them