Too many architecture reviews are just debates about which vendor's service logo to put on the diagram. The real value of an architect is knowing when the menu is the wrong starting point.
We never really needed ten thousand DevOps engineers. The market's not dying — it's clearing out the noise. When the dust settles, the builders will still be here.
Understand when to use Kubernetes and when to go serverless in your cloud-native architecture.
A thousand tiny Lambda functions scattered everywhere with no ownership, no contracts, and no way to test them locally. Sound familiar? Here's when serverless works, when it doesn't, and the discipline most teams skip.
AI-enabled revenue feels a lot like tulip bulbs in 1637. Everyone's hoarding data by the petabyte, hoping it'll bloom into gold. But most of it's weeds — and the only ones smiling are the lads selling shovels.
The cloud wars are raging. The secret to coming out unscathed is to back open technologies, think carefully about IaaS vs PaaS, and not get locked in while the giants fight it out.