Tag: Enterprise Architecture
-
The Shape It Falls Into
Photo by Fr. Daniel Ciucci on Unsplash Before a stone arch can support its own weight, something else has to hold it up. Imagine a bridge under construction, somewhere along a river whose current has been cutting through the landscape for longer than anyone remembers. Its foundations have been laid on either bank, and above…
-
Known Weaknesses
Photo by FlyD on Unsplash Author’s Note: The workplace examples in this piece are generalized from requests I have reviewed and stories shared by friends, colleagues, and community members over the past several years. Details have been altered, and none describes a specific person, team, or project. ~Dom The Bug Wasn’t Where They Were Looking…
-
Second Place
Photo by Riho Kitagawa on Unsplash The report had been running longer than anyone currently responsible for it. It wasn’t sophisticated: a few pages, a handful of filters, and a set of numbers that a team opened every week to track progress against a defined target. Nobody thought of it as architecture. People thought of…
-
Drawing Dead | An Architect’s Perspective on the Enterprise AI Bet
Photo by Julian Gojani on Unsplash You know what you are holding. Two cards, face down, and you have looked at them enough times to stop looking. You know the rules of the game, which hands beat which, and roughly how often the deck cooperates. You know how many chips are on your side of…
-
Borrowed Simplicity
Photo by Jonathan Phillips on Unsplash Somewhere in every mature platform there exists an object no one will delete. It could be a table, a view, a scheduled job, or a permission granted to a group that no longer matches any team on the org chart. It is probably not documented, and it is not…
-
Path B
Photo by Mert Kahveci on Unsplash A few weeks ago, I had the first genuine career conversation of my professional life. I told my director that I intended to keep developing toward the most senior individual contributor levels, and that I had been politely declining recruiter interest in director roles for some time. He didn’t…
-
Aligned to the Quarter
Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash I build the instruments organizations use to watch themselves. Dashboards, databases, pipelines, semantic models, reports, and the row-level security rules that quietly decide who sees which version of the truth. The first thing that work teaches you is how easily a number stays green while the thing beneath it…
-
The Meter is a Map
Photo by Tyler on Unsplash Author’s Note When I published The Token Tax three weeks ago, I expected the cost conversation around enterprise AI to keep growing. I did not expect it to accelerate this quickly. In the time since, the same pattern has surfaced across the industry in plain view: companies exhausting an entire…
-
The Token Tax
Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash Beginning in late 2022, during the preview conversations for the first iteration of Copilot, through its launch and at intervals ever since, I told Microsoft’s product team that speed to launch was a short-term advantage. It mattered, of course. In a market defined by attention, fear, and executive urgency,…
