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Notes from the field
The blog follows the life of the lab: learnings, failures, difficulties and new capabilities on the flagship and its outer islands, with regular detours into architecture theory.
Introducing Archipel Labs
Why a public laboratory for enterprise architecture, and how observing a simulated company beats explaining architecture from above.
How Archipel Labs is developed
PrestaShop, Matomo, Redis Streams and Playwright browsers: the real stack behind TimberWorks, and its catalog of Minecraft items.
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Shorter signals
Between field notes, I try to post on LinkedIn: the lighter side of the lab, and open questions to think through together. If that sounds interesting, come follow along.
I'm a hands-on architect: give me a problem and my instinct is to test what I think is right against reality. Across a lot of systems, that habit taught me far more than any grand principle, and it shaped every recommendation I later made to clients. But testing ideas properly needs a living…
Archipel Labs started with a lakehouse use case. The original goal was to help a client explore how Snowflake and Databricks could improve customer understanding through medallion layers, star schemas, data cleansing, external tables and slowly changing dimensions. But to move beyond a naive demo…
For the past few weeks I've been quietly building Archipel Labs, a public laboratory for enterprise architecture. It has become one of my biggest projects yet, and one I hope to keep growing for a long time. Over the years I've learned that the real difficulty in architecture rarely lives in the…
Good automation isn't about connecting tools. It's about what holds the platform together. In my last post, I kept it simple: ServiceNow governs, Ansible executes. But between them sits a real platform. And a platform has needs. Here, we need authentication. Secrets. Inventory. Events. Config. A…
Should ServiceNow govern while Ansible executes? That’s the question I wanted to explore. Connecting ServiceNow and Ansible is not the hard part. The hard part is designing the operating model around it. Who owns the approval? Who owns the execution? Where does the audit trail live? How do you…