Explained: EA in the Age of Cloud and Microservices

In 2005, if a team at Aldermont wanted a server, they filed a request. The request went to a central infrastructure group, which reviewed it, approved it, ordered the hardware, racked it in the data center, and handed back a hostname some weeks later. That chokepoint was slow and everybody hated it. It was also, quietly, the single most effective architecture governance mechanism the bank has ever had, because nothing could exist without passing… Read More