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Business Capability
What a business does, expressed stably and independently of how it currently does it or who is responsible.
Capability Map
A structured view of everything a business does, used as the stable frame for mapping applications, investment, ownership and gaps.
Google Maps and Planetary-Scale Spatial Serving
Map serving is fast because almost nothing is computed on request — the world is precomputed into a pyramid of tiles, and space is indexed onto a one-dimensional curve.
Booking.com's Experimentation Platform
Booking.com runs over a thousand concurrent experiments and treats the ability to test any change safely as a platform capability rather than a product feature.
Build vs Buy
The choice between developing a capability in-house and acquiring it, decided on differentiation and total cost rather than on feature lists.
Disaster Recovery
The plan and capability for restoring service after an event that takes out a whole site, region or system.
Managed Service
A capability the provider operates — provisioning, patching, backup, scaling and failover — leaving you the configuration and the data.
Microservices
An architectural style where an application is a set of independently deployable services, each owning its data and aligned to a business capability.
Strangler Facade
The routing layer in front of a legacy system that decides, per capability, whether a request goes to the old implementation or the new one.
Time to Market
How long it takes to get a capability in front of customers — often the constraint that dominates every other architectural quality.
Total Cost of Ownership
The full lifetime cost of a capability, including the people, operations, upgrades and exit that a licence comparison leaves out.
Capability Maps in EA
The stable frame for hanging investment, ownership and health off.
Capability Mapping
Overlaying systems onto capabilities to expose duplication and gaps.
EA Domains
Business, application, data and technology architecture as viewpoints.
EA Frameworks
Zachman, FEAF and others — vocabulary rather than method.
EA Metrics
Measuring whether architecture work changed anything.
Cloud Migration
Per-application disposition, sequencing and the capability change underneath.
Model Selection
Capability, latency, cost and the evaluation that decides between them.