Reflections

TL;DR: Lead Architects often carry the responsibility for technical vision without the formal authority to mandate it. This post explores how to master this "Architect’s Paradox" by using four informal leadership superpowers: Coaching through questions, the See-Hear-Speak framework, building a Personal Board of Advisors, and leveraging

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a method for overseeing an application's entire journey from creation to design, development, and retirement. ALM is crucial because each company has applications with different states in their lifecycle. Neglecting to manage technical debt and platform/framework updates can lead to severe problems

This blog post is the documentation of results of my research on acquiring new hardware for a NAS/home server. I'm comparing some potential out-of-the-box NAS devices and DIY (do-it-yourself) solutions. During the research, I explored and read perhaps hundreds of conversation threads and watched a similar number

It's time to reflect on and revisit some highlights and lessons learned from 2024. As always, tech, and especially Generative AI, evolved a lot during the year. I learned much about LLM (Large Language Models), OpenAI, Semantic Kernel, and locally running SLM (Small Language Models). It's

The year 2023 is ending and it's time to shortly reflect a bit on what has happened during the year. Growing as a software architect My role changed in the middle of the year, and I started acting as a Tribe Lead Architect. The Tribe Lead Architect role

A couple of weeks ago I started to read a book called The Software Architect Elevator written by Gregor Hohpe. Gregor said in the book "The more uncertain about the future I am, the more value I derive from deferring a decision.". After reading that sentence I started

Typically when designing software you need a tool that can help you to create multiple types of diagrams for documenting purposes. As an architect or developer, you need to create typical diagrams for technical architecture, logical networks, database schema, sequence diagrams, etc. There are a lot of good diagramming and

Data is the new oil. Like oil, data is valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc. to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity. so, must data be broken down, analysed for it to have value. Mathematician

When a new team and project starts there are a lot of things that should be agreed together. There are general practicalities and as well technical things which are affecting the team's daily work. This article focuses more on technical things that should be agreed upon as a