Saturday Architecture

Fixing issues in production is a tough challenge with no/very less debugging options. How do you handle this? Listen to me and Deepak sharing our experiences Deepak shares a Telemetry story and its origins 2 bonus stories- A condom tester that failed  / Hubble Telescope did not work on the launch. 

As an architect, the resolutions are an architect and commitment to architecture.

Low Code - No Code is a great opportunity to accelerate businesses and reduce the waiting time for software development . Full Video here   Venkatarangan Thirumalai- Too many moving parts and too much demand.   1. Lo-No Code with 15% growth on IT spend.  2. 28,000 jobs posting on Power Apps on Naukri / Upwork     Deepak Sharma- Development configuration...

Ready To Eat / Ready Mix food products help reduce #technicaldebt.  Deepak Sharma: It is not a build or buy decision anymore, a hybrid decision model needs to be evolved Making the backend more open and flexible. Making microwaves, a stove accessible. Look at the user base to decide  Venkatesan Oosur Vinayagam: In startup take caution against eating junk food. IT should identify good too...

Typically scale out means only from a technical perspective. Here we take a look at it from business and other perspectives as well. 

The relevance of the customer journey 06:03 Deepak - A key step is the addition of customer experience. What is the value being delivered?   09:23 Gowtham - Challenges in meeting the business the process takes precedence over the customer journey experience   14:55 Venkat - Challenges in making the customer journey. Processes make it easy.  17:32 Gaurav - Process is a de-r...

Sanjay Narang a leading Cloud expert joins us to explain.   Multicloud - Why does it matter as a consumer? As a CTO of a startup, it impacts me. For a larger enterprise, it most definitely does and is unavoidable.   04:30 - What are challenges faced by my enterprise? - Sanjay It helps in reducing cost. Reducing cost by reducing consumption.   10:40 Gowtham - Negotiati...

This lot of knowledge/blogs/technical articles out there. But a "how-to" handle my real-life problems is a scarce resource. Gaurav Aggarwal shares a lot of wisdom in this long episode of applying architecture concepts to challenges we face as architects. His "no-nonsense" and "no-fluff" answers were extremely insightful, inspiring and last but not the lease implementable.  01:00 Why certifica...

Consistency is a key attribute needed for architecture. But that hardly gets focus.  Kumaran - Consistency is hard in architecture. What does it mean? Why is it needed   https://youtu.be/TmA7vBowCRU?t=40 Deepak - Shares insight to spot the architectural issue happening and consistency missing like a GPS    https://youtu.be/TmA7vBowCRU?t=378 Nishan - is it true that co...

Kumaran - Automation / Robotic Process Automation is not considered a key asset/tool in the technology architect's box today. There is still a need to go to application/programming languages. How important is the automation tools of UIPath/Automation Anywhere/Power Automate matter?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3OxYDd6Ls What does automation mean? Karthick - Automation is more for delive...

Kumaran - Give a quick overview of story stelling specifically for architects. Why? How can a story be told in 2-3 mins? Storifying the data https://youtu.be/7ioHnNTE-LM Deepak - How can you build "What's In it For Me" is the Zeitgeist, the architect needs to leverage storytelling to make that happen. How to tap feeling to make a good story? https://youtu.be/7ioHnNTE-LM?t=323 Nishanth - Share his...

How to eat an elephant? Large project sputter/stutter and chug along. Mostly along the way they lose steam or interest. In my experience at the end stakeholder ae more relieved than joyful. "Customer Delight" by architects goes out of the window. Is it even possible?      Kumaran: Apply the happy bullocks to reduce the challenge. Avinash connects this to marathon running.https:...

Aligning the process of product/software development is tightly coupled with the architecture that is being built as well. We will look at how an architect can help the program/project manager customize the process for the architecture being implemented   Venkat talks about inducting new members and handling the challenges in getting them up to speed. Even though the process is "Agile" meetin...

Venkatesh , Aquaconnect- Used the Block pattern which caused the Cobra effect?  The effect is seen quickly. Moved to provider pattern still the same problem is surfacing.  VIMALesh- Versioning history is turned on OneDrive surfaced the problem. "Double Cobra" effect. Cloud migration also a Cobra effect.    Part 3 Nagarajan Ramanadhan, Virtusa - A particular functionality which...

ig tech companies back away from selling facial recognition to police.  If tech majors decide to sell a technology to me ( a company/country / Person )  How can I architect for business collapse? Especially if I am a tech-based company.    Gowtham And Nishanth - Highlight more dangers Of the above scenario. What is the legal clauses as an architect I should ask for to be entere...

Quantum computing is emerging.  It will change the face of computing.  What is it? When will it be mainstream? What are its applications?  This episode takes a stab at it.   Warning: Not for weak-hearted. :-)

Part 1 - Kumaran talks about a fundamental presumption of technology solutions that exists today. “Touch” as an interface. Not just  touchscreen but even keyboards mouse. Think of a ATM or Swipe machine keypads. https://youtu.be/DKCrsFFssD8   Part 2- Gowtham Retail IT specialist talks about his insights in the Covid scenario on retail. Should we make solution long-term or short-term...

Why what we see is not false- Experience it yourself? Janaka explains how he had faced and overcame it with his customer Karthick shares his experience of how this helped him meet his leadership expectations Deepak share how this manifested in a CxO meeting and became a problem The dangers and pitfall of CQAs and how to handle it. Full video here :https://youtu.be/CQPlBtjIUmA 

What are Architecturally Significant Requirements? How does it matter Full video https://youtu.be/T88AL5L7XiI

Green Zone Tasks in HiPoHa world are one which are of huge value but not considered becaue they typically dont have any deadlines. So they are always in the wishlist. Architects share what are those which can be done in the current downturn to generate value. Very interesting real life opportunities which can be done by architects.     Vimal's Literary Fiction & Architecture Con...

In the next 3-6 months what should an architect focus on? Listen to some insights form Deepak.

I hear a lot of peers telling us we have to do this in person. Managers want their reportees in front of them. All meetings should be in person even in large multinationals this behavior expected. It is high time we moved away from these ancient inefficient practices. Here is an attempt. Let us know if this does work for you.

Developers/Architects cant meet business deadlines and always lagging behind. Time is needed to build. But why not buy? Why the resistance to buy and use already built components?   How does a leader guide the to buy and or avoid spending precious time developing(build) software?    Save time / get to market quickly.    Is there a good rule of thumb? Yes, he...

What will be a key area of a CTO for 2020?  How can an architect make learning a culture in a team within 10 min? Wait towards the end of this discussion

Every New Year different resolutons are made. Here we attempted to make some resolutions as Architects.   Kumaran - To work towards making architecture increase adoption Nitho - Making architecture improve collaboration  Deepak - Making architecture in context with local culture   For details check the video below. Slightly long but will be worth your time.