Seeing the Forest and the Trees

Architectural landscape and system design

The architectural landscape is not often talked about as a standalone topic outside of specific instances such as migrating from on-premises to the cloud. In many ways, it’s similar to system design in its intention, as well as patterns. In most cases, the design of a single system within a larger ecosystem will match the design patterns of the systems around it. If the trend at our company is to utilize SOA, then we will see SOA at every level. The biggest difference between the architectural landscape and system design is the scope that the design encompasses.

We can’t see the forest for the trees ...