The Ugly Architect: Building Beauty from Complexity

The Generative AI Shift in Applications: A Strategic Perspective Over the past year, I’ve immersed myself in understanding how Generative AI is completely rewriting the rules of application development and user interaction. As someone who's spent years advising teams and organizations on application strategy, I’ve never seen a transformation of this scale. This isn’t just a change in tools — it’s a tectonic shift in how we conceive, build, and evolve apps. We are moving from building apps as isolated digital tools to architecting intelligent ecosystems that interact, adapt, and think with us. Here’s a deep dive into the structural and strategic shifts that every tech leader, product owner, and digital architect needs to understand. 🧠 The Generative Shift in Applications  🔄 Key Shifts in Application Strategy Shift Then Now Strategic Insight From Static Apps to Conversational Agents Menu-driven interfaces Natural language c...

Around 10 years back I was assigned to rationalize the Enterprise Service Bus Portfolio (Primarily BizTalk Servers) of an American investment bank and financial services holding company. This specific customer was experiencing ESB hell or ESB Mess. Each project/product and Business unit had their own ESB, hence managing ESB portfolio was costlier. Now when I see API management trends, I do smell similar challenge on our customer and enterprise too. Hence I thought writing some of my opinion based on prior experience on what value it brings for having multiple APIM products. As per CAGR report, the global APIM market is expected to grow from USD 5.1 Billion by 2023 . The key driving factors for the API Management market are as below. Growing Demand for API-Led Connectivity Need for Public and Private APIs to Accelerate Digital Transformation Opportunities for the API Management market Low-code platform for API development API Management solutions powered with advanced analytics capabi...