The Death of Enterprise Architecture

Join us at Pivotal's new office space in DC with Michael Coté for food, drinks, and conversation.

The Death of Enterprise Architecture: defeating the DevOps, microservices, and cloud-native assassins

Beyond the microservices gordian knot nonsense

Current application theory says that all responsibility for software should be pushed down to the actual DevOps-style team writing, delivering, and running the software. This leaves Enterprise Architect role in the dust, seamingly killing it off. In addition to this being disquieting to EAs out there who have steep mortgage payments and other expensive hobbies, it seems to drop out the original benefits of enterprise architecture, namely oversight of all IT-related activities to make sure things both don’t go wrong (e.g., with spending, poor tech choices, problematic integration, etc.) and that things, rather, go right.

Coté has spoken with several EA teams over the past few years about the changing nature of how EAs can help in a DevOps- and cloud-native-driven culture. He'll share their experiences including what type of EA help is actually needed and helps organizations thrive.

Michael Coté (just call him Coté) works at Pivotal, and has worked as an analyst at 451 Research and RedMonk, on strategy and M&A at Dell, and as a developer before that. He hosts several podcasts and can be seen me out and about speaking at conferences. See more at http://cote.io/about