https://ilyashamdi.com/tags/architecture/Recent content in Architecture on Ilyas HamdiHugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/slo-driven-infrastructure-architecture/Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/slo-driven-infrastructure-architecture/SLO-driven architecture treats the SLO as upstream of the design. If your SLO has never caused you to ship later, it isn't doing the work.https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/implicit-architecture-modernization/Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/implicit-architecture-modernization/Every modernization arrives with a stated goal and a much larger implicit one. The modernization that fails is the one where the implicit architecture was never named.https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/infrastructure-security-architecture-patterns/Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/infrastructure-security-architecture-patterns/A security pattern adopted without a threat model is a control with no clear job. The patterns aren't the problem. The application is.https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/containerized-actual-commitment/Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/containerized-actual-commitment/Containers were sold on consistency. The bill arrived in installments: orchestration, networking, security, observability. An honest audit of what the decision bought.https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cloud-architecture-review-output/Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cloud-architecture-review-output/Most cloud architecture reviews produce a deck that gets filed. A useful review produces decisions framed for the people who can make them.https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/dockerfile-architectural-decisions/Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/dockerfile-architectural-decisions/A Dockerfile is six lines and a dozen architectural commitments. Most teams write them by copy-paste. Few read them as decisions.https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/communicating-architecture-upward/Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/communicating-architecture-upward/The same architecture decision can be approved by one audience and rejected by another in the same quarter. Which document each was reading is the difference.https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cross-account-migration-confronts/Mon, 15 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cross-account-migration-confronts/A cross-account database move is the diagnostic, not the work. It surfaces architectural decisions you've been making implicitly for years.https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/iac-architecture-patterns/Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/iac-architecture-patterns/The shape of your IaC architecture is downstream of team size. Most pain comes from running yesterday's architecture at today's scale.https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cloud-architecture-debt/Tue, 19 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://ilyashamdi.com/writing/cloud-architecture-debt/Cloud architecture debt has four shapes: governance, operational, knowledge, optionality. Read the shape before you decide what to pay down.