Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge
Welcome to Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge with Dave Anderson, Mark McCann and Mike O'Reilly. We want to share our tools and techniques so that you can use them to communicate your Technical Strategy with your C-Suite and business owners. We want to help you to build a serverless first organisation. We will show you how to use Wardley Mapping to gain situational awareness of where your cloud applications and business are. And then how to develop your technical capability in away that builds engineering standards to set your organisation up for sustainable success.Sounds like the tools and techniques that you need - then hit the subscribe!-ABOUT- Dave, Mark and Mike are senior technical architects/leaders passionate about driving technical strategy. They have led transformation journeys, technical excellence, cloud adoption and tech strategies in many industries.Active in various technologies including ML/AI, Public Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Engineering, Product, Cyber and UX.
Serverless Craic from The Serverless Edge
Serverless Craic Ep72 Map Your Tech Stack | Evolutionary Architecture & The Value Flywheel Effect
In this episode of Serverless Craic, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly explore Chapter 15 of The Value Flywheel Effect — Map Your Solution. They discuss how Wardley Mapping and tech stack mapping create situational awareness, reduce friction between teams, and guide better architectural decisions.
If you’re a software engineer, architect, or tech leader aiming to evolve your systems with serverless and cloud-native thinking, this conversation shows practical techniques to uncover bottlenecks, reduce technical debt, and align teams on strategic improvements.
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 – Intro: jumping from summer to winter
01:00 – Mapping your solution: why it matters
02:20 – Tech stack mapping in practice
03:50 – Situational awareness and collaboration
05:50 – Funding priorities and bottlenecks
07:20 – Cloud services, serverless options, and evolution paths
09:30 – Custom build vs buy vs adopt cloud-native
11:00 – Organisational insights from mapping
12:00 – Duplication and domain-driven design issues
13:00 – Team Topologies and independent service heuristic
14:20 – Total cost of ownership and well-architected lens
15:50 – Target architecture and business impact
16:50 – Using mapping for strategy and incentives
17:40 – Context switching and leadership effectiveness
18:10 – Takeaways: evolutionary architecture
🔗 Resources
📖 The Value Flywheel Effect Book – https://thevalueflywheeleffect.com
🎥 Wardley Mapping 101 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP9Rl26Xeag
🎧 Podcast: Wardley Mapping is a Game-Changer – https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cUQgQFBeIkOBWUe35rDRU
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