If you feel like the AI generated article-image actually captures your company‘s system architecture quite nicely, then this article is for you.
There is no doubt that breaking down complex tasks into smaller, manageable subtasks is helpful for any kind of problem solving. This is also true for IT systems that digitalize our business processes. Architects therefore followed the tried and tested path of „divide and conquer“ in IT and divided our systems into smaller applications/services that fulfil specific tasks for different business areas.
With the growing complexity of our enterprise, the system of interconnected applications/services representing the digitalized business processes also grew overly complex. So we’re constantly trying to keep order and structure so that the whole mess doesn’t implode and stop working altogether — that’s actually Enterprise Architecture, if you ever wondered what those guys in the ivory tower are trying to achieve with their architecture component diagrams.
Much has been written about the right architecture to tame or prevent chaos when the…