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Buildings are still built using stones, wood, cement. That doesn't change much. In my experience as a DevOps transformation expert, 'Architects' are mostly old
by basdp 8y ago
Buildings are still built using stones, wood, cement. That doesn't change much.
In my experience as a DevOps transformation expert, 'Architects' are mostly old devs that have been kicked upstairs. The whole world changes each year to an extreme. You have to get your feet wet.
- jimjimjim 8y agoShack - doesn't need an architect. House - some do, some don't. Commercial Building - yep. Factory, Bridge or Infrastructure - you're insane if you don't. Just like in construction, it depends on what you are building/expanding. Not all software is the same.
- basdp 8y agoSo you're calling (f.e.) Amazon a shack?
- jimjimjim 8y agoAnd the Burj Khalifa doesn't need an architect? Sometimes the system doesn't need it sometimes it does. Not all software systems are the same. I personally think the architect role is to look at the big picture first rather than trying to dictate the minutiae.
- basdp 8y agoThe point is that an architect who doesn't 'code' (read: doesn't know how the practical implementation is done) doesn't know what he is designing. It's too abstract. A structural architect is called the same, but is not really comparable. Apples and oranges. At the least because the Burj Khalifa is still built under the same physics model as they used 100 years ago.
- adaml_623 8y agoA shanty town?