Architecture Thinking – Architecting in the Real World: 30 Frameworks I’ve Applied Across Industries

A practitioner’s catalog of cloud, integration, data, AI, DevOps, and business alignment frameworks, built from experience in FOREX, healthcare, banking, lending, manufacturing, and customer onboarding. Introduction Enterprise Architecture is often explained with reference models and

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Architect Thinking – From Event-Driven Systems Choreography to Business Process Workflow Orchestration: Solving Scale and Complexity

For technical leaders exploring event-driven systems versus workflow engines, this post builds on our earlier discussion of bespoke process databases and highlights why choreography struggles in high-volume, cross-domain environments. This post is part-2 of my

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Why Event-Driven Architecture Creates Bespoke Process Databases – and How Workflow Engines like Temporal Solve It

This blog post is designed as “Initial brainstorming points” for technical leaders weighing the trade-offs between event-driven systems and workflow engines. Introduction Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is widely used to build loosely coupled microservices. Services publish

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Why SRE SLOs for Azure EventHub and Apache Kafka Must Be Different – A Real-World Microservices Architecture Case Study

A Real-World Microservices Architecture Case Study with DataDog and a Custom EventBridge Background: A Real-World Enterprise Scenario In a recent architecture working session, our engineering team was tasked with defining SLOs (Service Level Objectives) for

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Chief Architect Learnings – Enterprise Architecture Principles – Traditional and Modern

Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles provide a structured approach to designing, governing, and evolving IT systems within an organization. They ensure alignment with business goals, scalability, security, and operational efficiency. In this post sharing list of

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The Power of Open-Ended Questions in IT Enterprise Architect Consulting Job

In my professional journey, especially within IT consulting, I consider the period from 2011 to 2020 a golden era where I focused extensively on pre-sales architecture consulting. During the latter part of the above phase,

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