Gregor Hohpe

Organizations see GenAI as a solution to their problems. Instead, it's going to compound their existing problems and dysfunctions.

This has happened with many new technologies. Cloud was supposed to make infrastructure cheaper and more reliable. Instead, it strained the already poor relationship between dev and ops. Integration and APIs were meant to create composable ecosystems. Instead, they became a new no man's land in the trench war between silos.

If GenAI speeds up software delivery, the internal friction will become unbearable. If GenAI makes software development a commodity, it'll highlight the lack of product strategy and critical thinking.

Yes, the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.

Resisting commoditization is a natural instinct: being a commodity means low margins and being replaceable.

But that's the narrow scope view. making things a commodity fuels the next wave of innovation: imagine a place where electricity isn't a commodity, and think what that'd do to your ability to innovate.

so, always push to the right, as aptly shown in my gesture 😂

No sane person would keep driving their (ICE) car with the below warning sign on. Without oil pressure, your engine will quickly die from excessive friction. And if you push the accelerator harder to overcome the friction, it only dies faster.

Yet, that's what so many organization do. When things move slowly due to excessive friction, they don't remove the friction, but just push harder. They just burn more energy with no result. and wear out their employees in the process, quite literally.

What do you think, does the world need a book on "Transforming IT with car analogies"? I may sufficient content...

Kelsey Hightower thoughts on #PlatformEngineering at PlatformCon:
- your platforms host data and applications. So you better understand data or applications
-Since 1999 people struggle with copying software to a machine and making it run
- Engineering is designing around what’s already there, build around those constraints. You won’t be able to do everything brand new
- People will use AI to generate shell scripts and call it innovation

Aspiring #architects look to add more skills to their repertoire. That's useful, but becoming a great architect requires synthesizing the different skills, meaning it's about multiplying, not just adding. A blog post:

A lot of IT ambitions remain wishes: cross-functional tribes working on agile in-house microservices platforms, yet features aren't delivered any faster, customer feedback can't be incorporated, and availability is still mediocre.

The reason is often that the org just renamed existing constructs without fixing the root cause of their symptoms. It's like taking a pain killer and expecting healing.

My latest blog post on the #ArchitectElevator helps you move from renaming to reshaping: https://lnkd.in/gD85sJTB

#Platforms can start much smaller and grow much bigger than most folks imagine. A #MinimumViable platform can be a piece of documentation or agreement on common ways of working. And it can evolve into a powerful ecosystem with internal events and customer testimonials.

Content credit: Jean-Francois L.. As always, get deeper platform insights in our #PlatformStrategy book

#Platform teams can easily forget that they provide distinct benefits to their project customers and their corp stakeholders.
Reuse is something that excites stakeholders. Dev teams just want speed, and often they have learned that shared solutions are slow or require too many compromises.