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Do point towards the "architect" hate pages, please. You've piqued my interest.

• ilikerashers 8y ago
  Scan up and down this thread. Comments are saying he/she shouldn't have a job, he/she should be writing code instead, who is h/shee to dictate to delivery teams. This was posted a few weeks back by a DRI in Stripe, https://hyperbo.la/w/aws-org-chart/ https://hyperbo.la/w/aws-org-chart/, which sounds alot like what traditional architects do. Nobody showed any interest. Anytime I've attempted to raise a discussion on this it gets shut down quickly. Yeap, maybe hate is a strong term. Certainly bad feeling towards the practice.
  • m-i-l 8y ago
    The analogy I sometimes use is that you don't need an architect to design a garden shed, but you do for a house which is much larger, has complex integrations with plumbing, electrics etc., plus building regulations to comply with, etc. A lot of dev work, especially in smaller companies, is building garden sheds, i.e. small single purpose self contained apps, but that doesn't mean every building is a garden shed.
    • ilikerashers 8y ago
      I like that. The logic is often "I worked on a team that didn't require an architect, therefore no teams require architects". I do readily admit there are quite a few hapless architects out there though.