Systems Architecture

2025-05-08

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)

After reading the document “Event-driven architecture overview” by Brenda Michelson I wanted to resume its key insights into a concise and practical definition of Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) for cloud-based systems. Here’s what I came up with: Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a software design paradigm where events—significant occurrences within or outside a system—trigger real-time actions. EDA Continue reading

Definition, Systems Architecture

ArchitectureDesign, CloudComputing, CloudSolutions, EDA, EventDrivenArchitecture, Microservices, Resilience, Scalability, SoftwareEngineering, UML
2025-04-29

Generic cloud services across architectural layers: a foundational package for cloud architectures

In designing, implementing, and governing cloud solutions, it is critical to define a baseline set of core services that must be considered in every architecture, regardless of the specific cloud platform. These foundational services ensure that essential capabilities — such as security, observability, governance, lifecycle management, and cost control — are embedded from the start. Continue reading

Cloud Architecture, Systems Architecture

Cloud Architect, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Solutions Architecture
2025-04-27

Navigating Generative AI: Data Infrastructure, Build vs Buy, and Risk Management

While searching for insights on the implementation of AI, I found a very helpful article, “The great acceleration: CIO perspectives on generative AI” (https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/18/1076423/the-great-acceleration-cio-perspectives-on-generative-ai/) by MIT Technology Review Insights in partnership with Databricks. From this article, I extracted some key points regarding what Cloud Solutions Architects should consider. Data Infrastructure is Key Build vs Buy Continue reading

Systems Architecture

AI, AIDevelopment, AIRiskManagement, ArtificialIntelligence, BigData, BuildVsBuy, BusinessStrategy, CIO, CloudArchitecture, CloudComputing, CloudSolutions, CompetitiveAdvantage, DataInfrastructure, DataLakehouse, DataManagement, DataSecurity, DigitalTransformation, EmergingTechnology, GenerativeAI, Innovation, ITStrategy, LargeLanguageModels, LLM, OpenSource, Scalability, TechTrends
2025-04-20

Strategic System Design: The Pitfalls of “Lock-in”

The initial stages of designing a new system are critical, as the choices we make can either enable future agility or lead to limitations. I recently encountered an interesting perspective (in a blog post by Gregor Hohpe) on the concept of “Lock-in”: “Lock-in describes the degree to which technical or non-technical dependencies on a specific Continue reading

Systems Architecture

futureproof, proactiveplanning, softwarearchitecture, systemdesign, technicalstrategy

Systems Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)

Generic cloud services across architectural layers: a foundational package for cloud architectures

Navigating Generative AI: Data Infrastructure, Build vs Buy, and Risk Management

Strategic System Design: The Pitfalls of “Lock-in”