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Why do we need Solution Architects?

The rationale and the description of the role solutuon architect

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Twitter, Mindfarts and greenhouse effect reduction

There was a program on Dutch National Television on Internet addiction. In that program one of the platforms positioned as addictive was Twitter. Ridiculed as a platform to throw brain farts around, the mostly older generation talking heads completely failed to see the bigger picture of tools like twitter. There obviously is a real downside to these messaging tools, as they can contribute to Internet Addiction as described by Jerald J. Block, M.D. in Psychiatry …

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SOA Tunnel Vision

Having delivered quite a few trainings on SOA and having observed several SOA-ish projects I notice that SOA solutions can be made very complex in a very short timeframe. Being a big fan of minimal approaches, it really surprises me that instead for looking for simpler solutions, people tend to make a solution more complex. The main cause for this is what I would call the golden hammer syndrome. I.e. people use the technology/trick that …

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