Architecture Governance, According to TOGAF

by Nick Rozanski

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) defines architecture governance as “the practice and orientation by which enterprise architectures and other architectures are managed and controlled at an…

More Ethical questions for architects

By Scott Andersen

Two new ethical questions for architects.

The first question is for architects that create content to be consumed by organizations and other architects in the production of a solution for the…

What Do You Mean, API?

By Mark Sigda

It was 2008, and I’d spent the past five years as a software architect in a mid-sized dev shop. We had dozens of applications and found ourselves with a lot of organically-grown web services. Wanting to promote re-use and get some control around our…

Wait, is that a smoke screen before me?

If for a moment we consider the concept of cloud computing as a fad what does that mean?

A fad being something that appears and then quickly fades from view and is only talked about by late night comedians (remember cloud — those were…