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Technology Radar
A published, periodically-reviewed view of which technologies are endorsed, tolerated, being trialled, or to be avoided.
Capital One's Data Centre Exit
A major US bank closed all eight of its data centres and moved fully to public cloud, treating governance automation as the enabling technology rather than a constraint.
Instagram's Early Scaling
Instagram reached tens of millions of users on Django and PostgreSQL with a handful of engineers, by deliberately choosing boring technology and doing the simple thing first.
Monolith vs Microservices
A trade of deployment independence against distributed-systems complexity, decided by team topology far more often than by technology.
Presenting to Executives
Leading with the decision and the business consequence, at a level of abstraction where technology names do not appear.
TOGAF
An enterprise architecture framework whose central element is the ADM, an iterative cycle from vision through business, data, application and technology architecture to implementa…
WhatsApp's Small-Team Scale
WhatsApp served hundreds of millions of users with a few dozen engineers by matching one technology choice precisely to the workload and refusing to add anything else.
Technology Selection
Evaluating options against drivers rather than against enthusiasm.
Model Selection
Capability, latency, cost and the evaluation that decides between them.
Technology Architecture
Platforms, runtimes and infrastructure standards across the estate.
Technology Radar
Adopt, trial, assess and hold — with movement, dates and owners.
Technology Standards
Guidance that teams follow because it helps, not because it is mandated.
EA Domains
Business, application, data and technology architecture as viewpoints.
Monolith vs Microservices
A team-topology decision far more often than a technology one.
Research & Evaluation
Assessing a technology quickly without adopting it by accident.