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Reference Technology Solutions: Bringing Architectural Coherence to Victorian Government ICT

Victorian government departments operate with genuine autonomy. Getting them to share an architectural language — without imposing a structure that destroys that autonomy — required a different approach to governance.

16 Jun 2025 Architecture Government

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Architecture at National Scale: Advising the Architecture Review Board for an MHRD Solution at NIC

When MHRD set out to build a major digital infrastructure solution for hundreds of millions of citizens, the Architecture Review Board needed independent technical advisory to ensure the decisions made in the delivery team translated into a system that could actually serve that ambition.

9 Jun 2025 Architecture Government

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What Project Rescue Actually Looks Like: Rebuilding a Telco Platform in Kuala Lumpur

Greenfield projects let you design from first principles. Rescue projects make you work with what exists, fix what's broken, and keep the plane in the air while you do it. Here's what that required.

19 May 2025 Engineering Architecture

Brief · 9 min read

What Happens When Your Vendor Has Skin in the Game: EA in São Paulo

A profit-sharing arrangement with a Brazilian conglomerate changed how every architecture decision got made. Here's what building an EA practice looks like when the incentives are aligned.

5 May 2025 Architecture Strategy

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Transforming Telecom in Shenzhen: What 2008 SOA Built the Foundation For

Before microservices had a name, a project inside China's leading telecommunications equipment company was already thinking in services. Here's what that looked like from the inside.

28 Apr 2025 Engineering Architecture

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Building at Scale in China: What the Architecture Textbooks Don't Cover

Nine months leading the platform design for one of China's largest e-commerce builds taught me that the hardest problems weren't technical — they were structural and cultural.

21 Apr 2025 Engineering Architecture