The Architecture Review Checklist: 41 Questions I Ask
I’ve sat on the reviewing side of a few hundred cloud architecture reviews. Different teams, vendors and business problems — but the same forty-odd …
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How to Prepare for an Architecture Review
Most architecture reviews that go badly go badly for the same reason: the team arrives with a good design and an incomplete story. The reviewers spend the hour …
The Compute Ladder: Serverless-First, Then Work Backwards
When a team asks “where should this run?”, I don’t start with their stack. I start at the top of a ladder and ask what stops us from staying …
Cloud Architecture Anti-Patterns (and What to Do Instead)
These are the patterns I flag most often in architecture reviews. None of them is a disaster on its own. Each one adds operational work, hides a failure mode, …
Architecture Diagrams and Decision Records Reviewers Trust
Two artefacts do most of the work in an architecture review: the diagram, which shows what you’re building, and the decision record, which shows why. Get …
Guardrails and Paved Roads: Scaling Cloud Architecture Across Teams
Architecture reviews don’t scale on their own. If every team needs a meeting to learn the same lessons, the review board becomes the bottleneck. The fix …
Serverless Architecture: Key Service Considerations
Key service considerations and configuration options for a serverless architecture
Cloud Native Software Architecture
A personal cheatsheet/reference for cloud native software architecture