Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You Article was written 2001, but It’s still up to date.
I disassemble two parts of that article that I’ve thought over:
These are the people I call Architecture Astronauts. It’s very hard to get them to write code or design programs, because they won’t stop thinking about Architecture. They’re astronauts because they are above the oxygen level, I don’t know how they’re breathing. They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don’t contribute to the bottom line.
Remember that the architecture people are solving problems that they think they can solve, not problems which are useful to solve. Soap + WSDL may be the Hot New Thing, but it doesn’t really let you do anything you couldn’t do before using other technologies — if you had a reason to. All that Distributed Services Nirvana the architecture astronauts are blathering about was promised to us in the past, if we used DCOM, or JavaBeans, or OSF DCE, or CORBA.
Alan Braz wrote in his Sametime message: Stop Talking, Start Doing. I found the ad video that explain the main idea, clicking on “Globalization” video.
In few words, we can brief both the article and the IBM Ad Video: Stop designing useless software architecture, Starting coding useful software.
Are you learning or using new technology because It is a hype or buzzword ?
Or are you learning or using new technology because It contributes to the bottom line ?
Any thoughts ?
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho