A company’s technical architecture is often at the core of everything it does, maintaining it is therefore a key priority and one that should never be overlooked.
Technical architecture, from an organisational point of view, is the software, hardware and networks that sit at the centre of a company and are largely responsible for both big and small objectives. That is to say, this form of architecture is crucial to a business and is essentially its foundation.
SiliconRepublic.com spoke with various leaders in the STEM space about the importance of technical architecture, the challenges of maintaining it and how pipelines can be developed to support its development, as well as what it takes to conceive of and implement future tech.
“I believe that one of the biggest challenges is not designing the future architecture but transitioning to it,” explained Natasha Bornhorst, a senior software engineer at Rent the Runway.
She said, “This is particularly challenging when you’re rearchitecting a cornerstone monolithic service into more manageable and scalable microservices. It’s tempting to want to simply build an entirely new system on the side and switch over in one large cutover, but this can introduce significant operational and business risks.
