Software Architect, Technology enthusiast, husband and father
In late 2015 I was preparing for a conference talk on Cloud-Native Computing and Cloud Foundry when another new concept of FaaS (Function as a Service) came at me from left-field. In the four years that have passed since then, FaaS has only come up once - using Spring…
In the world where everyone wants to be in the cloud because it’s the cool place to be; a movement to design applications specifically to run in a cloud environment was somewhat natural and inevitable.
What is a software architect these days? How much value do they actually bring? Are they needed?