{"id":4371,"date":"2025-05-12T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2025-04-26T07:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T12:01:49","slug":"would-someone-please-explain-architecture-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/05\/would-someone-please-explain-architecture-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Someone Please Explain \u201cArchitecture\u201d to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I suppose I am several generations behind in the lingo of my profession. Is it too much to ask people to speak English or at least define their terms?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read this recently, &#8220;Get the architecture right, then the details.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hmm, sounds like in that case &#8220;architecture&#8221; means the &#8220;high-level design.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But &#8220;design&#8221; is a verb sometimes used as a noun. &#8220;Architecture&#8221; is a noun, so I guess we design an architecture, maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m confused on this. And then we have solutions architects. A solution is a correct response to a problem. Well, I am glad we have people architecting or designing solutions as opposed to designing more problems in response to problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am confused. Perhaps a junior-level recruiter can explain this all to an old man. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I suppose I am several generations behind in the lingo of my profession. Is it too much to ask people to speak English or at least define their terms? I read this recently, &#8220;Get the architecture right, then the details.&#8221; Hmm, sounds like in that case &#8220;architecture&#8221; means the &#8220;high-level design.&#8221; But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,32,12,50,416,66],"tags":[225,154,135,417],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-communication","category-design","category-thinking","category-vocabulary","category-word","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-design","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}