02 / CAPABILITIES
CAPABILITYMATRIX.
Six connected engineering domains. Open one native detail to inspect its technologies, concerns and system relationships.
01 / DOMAINSNATIVE DETAILS / SINGLE STATE OWNER
Engineering capability domains
01SYSTEM ARCHITECTUREBoundaries, flows and behavior across complex systems.↗
- CORE TECHNOLOGIES / CONCEPTS
- DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS / APIs / INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE / REVERSE PROXIES / SERVICE COMMUNICATION
- SYSTEM CONCERNS
- SYSTEM DESIGN / HIGH AVAILABILITY / FAILURE MODES / DEPENDENCIES / SERVICE BOUNDARIES / PRODUCTION BEHAVIOR
- RELATED DOMAINS
- Distributed Systems / Platform Engineering / Security
02DIGITAL IDENTITY & TRUSTIdentity and trust between users, applications and organizations.↗
- CORE TECHNOLOGIES
- KEYCLOAK / OAUTH 2.0 / OPENID CONNECT / SAML 2.0 / PKI / X.509 / mTLS / JWS / JWE
- SYSTEM CONCERNS
- AUTHENTICATION / AUTHORIZATION / FEDERATION / TRUST BOUNDARIES / CERTIFICATE LIFECYCLE / KEY MANAGEMENT / PROTOCOL INTEGRATION
- RELATED DOMAINS
- System Architecture / Security / Platform Engineering
03PLATFORM ENGINEERINGReliable environments and repeatable production delivery.↗
- CORE TECHNOLOGIES
- KUBERNETES / DOCKER / HELM / NGINX / LINUX / CI/CD / CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
- SYSTEM CONCERNS
- ENVIRONMENT ARCHITECTURE / SCALABILITY / RESILIENCE / RELEASE DELIVERY / CONFIGURATION / OBSERVABILITY / OPERATIONAL STABILITY
- RELATED DOMAINS
- System Architecture / Distributed Systems / Delivery / Security
04DISTRIBUTED & EVENT-DRIVEN SYSTEMSCommunication, state and resilience across components.↗
- CORE TECHNOLOGIES
- KAFKA / APIs / EVENT-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE / ASYNCHRONOUS PROCESSING / SERVICE INTEGRATION
- SYSTEM CONCERNS
- STATE / ORDERING / FAILURE HANDLING / RESILIENCE / RETRIES / IDEMPOTENCY / CONSISTENCY / INTEGRATION
- RELATED DOMAINS
- System Architecture / Platform Engineering / Delivery
05APPLICATION & PLATFORM SECURITYSecurity engineered into applications and platforms.↗
- CORE TECHNOLOGIES
- SECURE SDLC / TLS / mTLS / AUTHENTICATION / AUTHORIZATION / PKI
- SYSTEM CONCERNS
- PENTEST REMEDIATION / SECURITY BOUNDARIES / ATTACK SURFACE / VALIDATION / HARDENING / TRUST / SECURE INTEGRATION
- RELATED DOMAINS
- Digital Identity / System Architecture / Platform Engineering
06ENGINEERING DELIVERY & TROUBLESHOOTINGArchitecture carried through releases and production problems.↗
- CORE TECHNOLOGIES
- CI/CD / RELEASE ENGINEERING / OBSERVABILITY / AUTOMATION / MIGRATION
- SYSTEM CONCERNS
- ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS / ENVIRONMENT PARITY / DEBUGGING / PRODUCTION INCIDENTS / MIGRATION / FAILURE ANALYSIS
- TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
- ARCHITECTURE DECISIONS / ENGINEERING STANDARDS / CROSS-SYSTEM REASONING / DELIVERY OWNERSHIP / TECHNICAL PROBLEM SOLVING
- RELATED DOMAINS
- System Architecture / Platform Engineering / Distributed Systems
SYSTEM CAPABILITY MAPARCHITECTURE / ACTIVE
Active domain: SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Related domains:
- Distributed Systems
- Platform Engineering
- Security
Architecture becomes valuable when it survives implementation, integration and production reality.
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