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...

Recently while speaking at GitHub developer event, major of my audience had question on how an Architect’s career path look like . So thought sharing some my opinion here. This is just an abstract viewpoints reason being I afraid learning materials may derail your enthusiasm to be a good architect. I will try to share some of learning materials in my next blog. In this blog, I will try to cover Types of Architects Paths into Architecture So what makes a good Architect Paths from Architecture Setting yourself apart from the rest   Type of Architects Our IT industry is very new and still evolving every moment. This is where our process and roles were borrowed from civil engineering world, which is very mature from decades. You can clearly see some of similarities of Roles like Software Engineer, Project Manager, Project Consultant, IT Supervisor or Program manager similar to Civil engineer, civil consultant or project manager. Software Architect is no difference t...