The Blueprint — June 22, 2026 (#1)

Daily links for software, solution, data & enterprise architects.

Top Links

• Decentralizing Architectural Decisions with the Architecture Advice Process (Andrew Harmel-Law via InfoQ) – Why architecture decisions should spread across the org instead of sitting with a few named architects, and how the “advice process” makes that workable.
• AWS Continuum: Security at Machine Speed (AWS Security Blog) – AWS’s new agentic security platform that reasons over vulnerabilities end-to-end — discovery through remediation — instead of just surfacing findings.
• Agentic AI: Enterprise Architecture’s Shift from Control to Context (BlueDolphin) – Why EA is moving from static documentation toward machine-readable context that autonomous agents can actually act on.

Software Architecture

• Modern Software Architecture Patterns That Scale in 2026 (UpCloud) – A grounded look at why most architecture advice is written for billion-user scale, and how that mismatch quietly burns smaller teams.
• Architecture in the Age of AI: Change and Opportunity (InfoQ eMag) – A collection on the architect’s shift from manual design to “meta-design,” including the Three Loops framework for balancing AI oversight with delegation.
• Architecting Autonomy: Decentralising Architecture Inside an Organization (InfoQ eMag) – Practical patterns — guardrails not gates, declarative architecture, fitness functions — for keeping AI-accelerated teams coherent without bottlenecking them.

Solution Architecture

• Architecture as Code and the CALM Model (Jim Gough via InfoQ) – How treating architecture decisions as code closes the gap between developers and infrastructure, with patterns for automating security reviews.
• Where Architects Sit in the Era of AI (Dave Holliday, João Carlos Gonçalves, Manoj Kumar Yadav via InfoQ) – The “Three Loops” (In, On, Out) framework for deciding when to delegate design work to AI versus retain direct control.

Data Architecture

• Engineering LinkedIn’s Job Ingestion System at Scale (LinkedIn Engineering, via Data Engineering Weekly) – How LinkedIn moved source onboarding from hard-coded extraction logic to configuration-driven “Sitemaps,” cutting onboarding from weeks to hours.
• DataJunction: Netflix’s Answer to the Missing Piece of the Modern Data Stack (Netflix Tech Blog) – An open-source semantic layer decoupling metric definitions from compute, standardizing metrics with full lineage for LLM integration.
• Uber’s Data Abstraction Layer (Uber Engineering, via Data Engineering Weekly) – Fronting OLAP, Docstore, and Hive with a layer that routes queries to physical candidates at query time, so schema changes stop breaking downstream products.

Security Architecture

• Inside AWS Security Agent: A Multi-Agent Architecture for Automated Penetration Testing (AWS Security Blog) – A technical deep dive into how specialized agents split attack-surface mapping, exploitation, and validation to deliver pen testing that used to take weeks.
• Operationalizing AWS Security: A Maturity Roadmap (AWS Security Blog) – A phased roadmap for turning Security Hub and GuardDuty findings into a sustained operational practice, not just a dashboard nobody reads.

Enterprise Architecture

• Agentic AI and the Future of Enterprise Architecture (EA Voices) – A practitioner’s take on what changes — and what doesn’t — in EA practice as agentic systems take on more autonomous decision-making.
• Enterprise Architecture Tooling in 2026 (Dr. Mehmet Yildiz) – A survey of where AI is genuinely useful in EA repositories today (documentation, relationship suggestions, natural-language queries) versus where it isn’t yet.
• Architecting an Agentic AI System with TOGAF 10: A Step-by-Step Guide (Dr. Armando Fandango) – Walks the TOGAF ADM phases applied specifically to an agentic AI system, including where security has to be threaded through every phase.

Video Pick of the Week

• Lesson 220 – Collaborating With The Business (Mark Richards, Software Architecture Monday) – Mark Richards’ long-running weekly series continues with a lesson on bridging the architect-business gap; the channel is one of the most consistently cited resources for practitioners moving from developer to architect roles.

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