(This is a re-post of a 25-year-old entry from a long-since retired blog called 'The Buddha Nature of Software'. The topic came up in a conversation with a colleague today about how to present they whys and wherefores of our service-mesh architecture to smart business people in our monthly business-facing technology forum. Still seemed relevant, … Continue reading On Folk I.T.
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The Moment of Conception
It's that time of year, for those of us whose fiscal year and calendar year align, to start talking about strategic technology asks for next year. To play the portfolio optimization game well we - the architects we - need to produce high level solution designs and close cost and resource estimates for each project … Continue reading The Moment of Conception
CONQUER Part 4: Software Morality
As we've described in this CONQUER series (Part 1, Part 3), distributed systems are information tools enabling volitional entities in relationships of permission and obligation to achieve their intents via purposeful dialogs, communicated among software components proxying their wills, consisting of imperative, declarative, and interrogative sentences: commands, queries, and events. Let's briefly consider the nature … Continue reading CONQUER Part 4: Software Morality
Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 2: Emergence of the Individual Narrative
This is the second in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. In today's … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 2: Emergence of the Individual Narrative
Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 1: Purpose, Introduction, and Approach
Purpose Healthcare today is largely an information business. With the exception of the few moments of physical interactions with patients in diagnosis and treatment, prescriptions, and medical equipment, we all trade in information. Payers manufacture only good will. They sell and service a binding promise to pay some part of a person’s or family’s health-related … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 1: Purpose, Introduction, and Approach
CONQUER Part 3: Flames from Agile Burning in the Back Office Light the Way
This is the third part of a series describing the Command, Notify, Query (CONQUER) distributed systems architecture: distributed systems are information tools enabling volitional entities in relationships of permission and obligation to achieve their ends via purposeful dialogs, communicated among software components proxying their wills, consisting of imperative, declarative, and interrogative sentences: commands, notifications, and … Continue reading CONQUER Part 3: Flames from Agile Burning in the Back Office Light the Way
CONQUER Part 2: The Will that Powers
This is the second part of a series describing the Command, Notify, Query (CONQUER) distributed systems architecture: distributed systems are information tools enabling volitional entities in relationships of permission and obligation to achieve their ends via purposeful dialogs, communicated among software components proxying their wills, consisting of imperative, declarative, and interrogative sentences: commands, notifications, and … Continue reading CONQUER Part 2: The Will that Powers
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