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Technology Radar
A published, periodically-reviewed view of which technologies are endorsed, tolerated, being trialled, or to be avoided.
Architecture Principle
A durable, agreed rule that constrains design decisions in advance, stated with its rationale and its implications.
Architecture Review Board
A forum that reviews significant designs against standards, risks and strategy before commitment.
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.
Paved Road
A supported, opinionated default way to build and run a service, made easy enough that teams choose it rather than being required to.
Presenting to Executives
Leading with the decision and the business consequence, at a level of abstraction where technology names do not appear.
Reference Architecture
A pre-approved, documented template for a recurring class of solution, so that similar problems do not get individually redesigned.
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 Standards
Guidance that teams follow because it helps, not because it is mandated.
Technology Architecture
Platforms, runtimes and infrastructure standards across the estate.
Technology Radar
Adopt, trial, assess and hold — with movement, dates and owners.
Technology Selection
Evaluating options against drivers rather than against enthusiasm.
EA Domains
Business, application, data and technology architecture as viewpoints.
Enterprise Integration
Estate-wide integration strategy, standards and shared infrastructure.
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.