In the cloud-native and DevOps world, there's a lot of hand-wringing and snark around the role of "enterprise architect." At scale, the goals of this EA function seem to be valuable: understanding and translating to IT what the business does and how it functions, ensuring that best practices and technologies are used, and helping make sure IT is actually helping the business with as little risk taken on as possible. However, the relationship between EAs and cloud-native teams seems a bit misaligned at the moment. This week, Coté talks about his research so far into figuring out how "traditional" enterprise architects could and should figure into cloud-native think, mostly by giving an overview of 2006 book on the topic. As ever, we also discuss some recent cloud-native news.
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Show Notes
Upcoming Events
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Cloud Native Roadshow, various dates and cities: Stuttgart, Dallas, Denver, LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Seoul, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore.
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News
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Google Cloud opens London location. Couple locations in Europe now, more coming. The ants go marching one-by-one...
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At Microsoft Inspire conference, PCF on Azure Stack, Pivotal winning “Azure consumption partner of the year”. You like us, you really like us. More private cloud discussion on last week's Software Defined Talk.
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IDC says IT spending going up. Cloud playing a part in the new investments.
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Everyone wants to offer a platform. Workday, Cloudflare, etc.
Discussion - Is there a baby in all this bathwater?
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Coté is slowly building up a theory about cloud-native EA. Not a lot out there except upset weekend bikers and snarky hackernews poo-flingers.
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For those following along at home, there's more in the "notes" document.
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