Platform Strategy: Innovation Through Harmonization (Architect Elevator Book Series)

Been reading his stuff for quite a while now. Excellent approach to modern software engineering platform ideas.

Do you read a book to justify your strongly and long held beliefs? Or do you read a book to challenge your assumptions, possibly solidify some beliefs or get a perspective in an entirely new direction? Given that time is the one resource I have less and less of, Gregor never disappoints when I spend it reading his works.

I am a big fan of Gregor Hohpe's way of getting important information across. Platform strategy is no exception. The book gives you a good overview on the topic of platforms - Gregor has collected a lot of thoughts around the topic and presents them in a way that is engaging and memorable to read. As platforms are kind of everywhere now, and almost any organization is discussing how much centralization/federation they should do, I can recommend to read this book to almost anybody involved in (enterprise) IT architecture or IT management.

Haven't read much yet, but almost every second page is falling out from the book. Pages are badly glued 😔