Architecture, Babies, and Bathwater
summary
A fast, example-rich keynote that maps the Gartner hype cycle onto concrete technologies: MDA/UML, SOA (WS‑, ESBs), microservices, Kubernetes, SPAs and RDBMS. It runs live polls with Haaslides and shows word‑clouded audience answers, claims model-driven abstraction and models as source of truth are worth rescuing, argues the real value in SOA was service boundaries* and decoupling, and warns against adopting tech for fashion. Offers specific failure modes (generated code drift, tool bloat, unnecessary complexity) and practical guidance: evaluate context, not hype.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:50Technology hype and anti-hype
- 5:23Throwing out the baby with bathwater
- 10:15Model driven architecture
- 19:25UML and its legacy
- 24:17Service oriented architecture
- 30:58Future of popular tech
- 37:59Hype-resistant technologies
- 42:31Summary and takeaways
- 43:57Q&A session
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