I’m surprised HN is so hostile toward IT architecture. I work in the public sector in Denmark, and enterprise architecture is vital for us. We’re 98 municipalit

I’m surprised HN is so hostile toward IT architecture. I work in the public sector in Denmark, and enterprise architecture is vital for us. We’re 98 municipalities that each operate around 300 different IT systems. These need to interact with each other, as well as major IT systems on the regional and state level (citizen base data, healthcare, taxes and so on). They’re build/maintained by 50 major vendors and a few thousand small ones. Sometimes a system changes hands through public procurement. The longest running systems are from the 70ies, and have several layers of modern APIs build on top of each other. Imagine doing all that by letting thousands of random developers run completely free. I mean, I don’t have to imagine because we didn’t actually involve architects early enough, and it’s cost us billions to correct that mistake.