Saturday Architecture

I have developed an application for my corporate users, basically internal employees. This was done with a lot of sincerity, business study, and getting buy-in from them. but after the system goes live no one seems to be interested in using the application however hard I try, which is very baffling and irrational. After all, I made this application based on the end users request and did a study wi...

Who is responsible for the ultimate success of a business aka Revenue/Profits? This becomes an even tougher question in today's world when everything is driven by technology. For a technology company, this becomes even more critical.

The architect and the architecture team will have different responsibilities in a remote working environment.  \ One of the most confusing aspects of hybrid working environments is that there are no formalized guidelines to set standards. That means that every team will be different.  When it comes to architecture and development teams working in hybrid environments, there tends to be a...

Dont follow Global "Best Practices". Are Global Best Practices Bad? The answer is yes, and no. It depends on what you mean by “global best practices” and how you use them. If you're looking for a way to implement a global concept or process in your organization, then the answer is probably not: global best practices can be a dangerous distraction from actually innovating and building your own loca...

With technologies changing and new technologies getting introduced, how to keep pace and stay relevant?

Is anyone who runs a business an entrepreneur? What does entrepreneurship inside a corporate company?  What makes an entrepreneurand a technopreneur ? Is a successful architect an technopreneur or do they have to do something more to qualify?

Most of the technical organizations today have a simple problem how do we deliver value to the end customer using technology in the cheapest and quickest possible method. The software industry is at a stage where we have become fairly good at delivering any requirements explicitly stated however to discover requirements that are not explicitly stated we have struggled with it for more than 3 decad...

This week we had a festival called Bhoghi in southern part of India. an important ritual as a part of this festival is to collect the waste from your house and burn it. it is an interesting ritual as we identify things which are hampering our quality of life and removing them and making a clean start. As I was thinking about this it occurred to me from years ago when I had learned about lean manuf...

Great Resignation   Can architects stem the flow? Yes seems to be resounding in answer  A few pointers  • Making the CEO or the CTO look good   • Providing a technology vision helps  • Ensuring impact of the team’s work  • Making architecture look sexy   #greatresignation #architects

#log4jvulnerability has created havoc. I escaped this time but note sure about next time. Something like is "INEVITABLE" unless I am god. Thankfully there are some things that can be done. Listen to some good insights from Deepak Sharma Nithin Mathew Sivaprasad Tenkala Jiffin Akkarappatty Full Video here : https://lnkd.in/gQTRju-n A good explanation of Log4J for those interested is available here....

The architecture will fail. Solutions will fail. How to handle them cleanly.

As an architect, I used to think/say   I have very little time to develop, so.....    have very poorly skilled team members, so...   The requirements are not clear and keep changing, so...   How can it be my responsibility alone to develop a good architecture? Some challenges insights.

For new business solutions, when the customers  are unknown.  In this scenario how to develop applications to meet unknown expectations?

SatArch Ep- 53 : After 28 years I realized there are many customers who I DONT care about? Deepak - Someone who pays is the customer they are not end-users  Venkat - The development team is also customers. Why do we need to think like this? Nishanth - The end users are only high-value customers. Giving the right value to customers. What is the right value? Kumaran - The operations teams are t...

What is #customerexperience  (CX)? It is a big intangible. Interesting insights in less than 3 minutes Deepak Sharma - The difference between CX, UX, and UI Sidambara Raja Krishnaraj – Using job theory and Co-creation as a CX levers Venkatesan Oosur Vinayagam - Managing changing needs is CX Nishanth K Pillai -  Making a promise and keeping it Venkataraman Subramanian you passion.

Some questions Is the architect responsible for the adoption of new technologies by the end-users ? Or does the architect responsibility ends with choosing the right technology and implementing it well? This is not an easy question to answer. It depends on the context and the scope of the architect's responsibility also. Let us look deeper into what are the other parameters which determine what th...

Does an architect in the US and India mean the same when they tell something? - No   Does being an architect in one Business Domain mean the same as an architect in another Business Domain? - Most probably not.     Venkataraman Subramanian who has worked across Geos and Domain shares some interesting insights.

"That concept will not work in my organization we are different" - Sr Mgrs   "I need that Global standard to be implemented  right away" - Sr Exec     So should we develop solution locally or go for global ones? Most of time global solution will fail because of many factors..mostly it is cultural (human) issues. Does that mean I have to reinvent the wheel every time?...

Does your architecture influence or just manage? We typically have architectures that manage the user requirements. It is hard to make an architecture influence and change the user's life. This includes changing their behavior. This is a big challenge, especially in Enterprises. How do we make architectures which can influence? An #architecture that drives #changemanagement , the most needed attri...

Kumaran shares his experience of how he and his family applied architecture principles when Covid infection happened to all his family

It is easy to spot bugs in code/design. But bugs/deficiencies in architecture get away 90% of time. Don't believe me. Listen in

Beyond user requirements using pain as a path to make good architecture sounds interesting. But it is not easy as it sounds.    Check out insights from   Raja - Symptomatic treatments, Google Doctors  Gowtham - Business pain / Developer Pain / Change management pain  Prashanth Kaankade  - We have a car but don't know how to drive it. Covid is a "pain enhancer" Deepak...

SHOW LESS Cloud technologies do not give CORPS by default.  A hacker can use your cloud instance to run up your cloud bill.  Architects cannot reduce architectural responsibilities just because the cloud is used.  An architect needs to be even more cautious on the cloud than on-prem. CORPS will apply to all phases of software development not just when doing design. It is a cultural...

Mircroproducts is an interesting paradigm introduced to me by the awesome @Dorai Dodla  Kumaran - Current way of thinking is not ideally suited for Mircoproduct architecture  Gaurav - Observability helps in  Microproduct mindset  Nirosh - Nature has Microproduct architecture elements and the relevance of Quantum Computing. Observability is more important than traceability Venka...

There is a need to change software and architecture in production. This cannot be done by bringing down production systems for every range.