Series
ERP Infrastructure Architecture
Integration, disaster recovery, data replication, message-queue isolation and safe release patterns for enterprise ERP infrastructure. Each post tackles one operational architecture decision.
- 1Technology
Event-Driven Architecture in ERP Integrations
A guide to building a resilient, observable, and loosely coupled integration architecture around enterprise ERP systems.
- 2Technology
Integration DMZ Design in ERP Infrastructures
An integration DMZ approach for connecting ERP systems to external services in a secure and manageable way.
- 3Technology
Data Replication Layer in ERP Modernization
A data replication layer design approach for distributing the integration load without disrupting the ERP core.
- 4Technology
Privileged Access Segmentation in ERP Systems
A network and access segmentation approach that reduces standing broad permissions when administering ERP core systems.
- 5Technology
Active-Passive Disaster Recovery for ERP Infrastructure
The fundamentals of building a realistic active-passive recovery model for ERP systems, covering data consistency, network routing, and operational roles.
- 6Technology
Integration Contract Governance in ERP Modernization
An integration contract approach that protects version, ownership, and change boundaries of services around the ERP.
- 7Technology
Batch-Window-Free Workflow Architecture in ERP Infrastructures
An architectural approach that converts ERP processes tied to nightly batch windows into event-driven and observable flows.
- 8Technology
Secret Key Distribution Plane in ERP Infrastructures
A central secret key distribution architecture that reduces the burden of secret handling across ERP integrations and batch flows.
- 9Technology
Jump-Host-Free Management Corridor in ERP Infrastructures
An enterprise access architecture that manages privileged access without depending on a single jump server.
- 10Technology
Reversible Schema Migration Pipeline in ERP Infrastructures
An ERP approach that manages database schema changes through a reversible and observable migration pipeline, without amplifying outage risk.
- 11Technology
An Observability Control Room for ERP Infrastructures
An observability control room approach that gathers ERP-adjacent critical flows not into a single pane but into a single operational language.
- 12Technology
A Message Queue Isolation Corridor in ERP Infrastructures
A message queue isolation approach that separates the integration load between the ERP core and surrounding systems.
- 13Technology
An Idempotent Retry Corridor in ERP Integrations
A retry corridor that prevents repeated calls from producing data inconsistencies and improves resilience in ERP integrations.
- 14Technology
Designing a Reporting Replica for ERP Infrastructures
An architectural approach that protects the production transactional load while moving reporting and analytics queries onto a separate data surface.
- 15Technology
An Active-Active Integration Corridor for ERP Infrastructures
An architectural approach focused on resilience and consistency that runs the integration layer active-active without straining the ERP core.
- 16Technology
Regional Integration Cells in ERP Infrastructures
Explores the regional cell approach for ERP integrations to manage data sovereignty, latency, and blast radius.
- 17Technology
Integration Rollout in ERP Infrastructures via Release Rings
An enterprise architecture approach that grows ERP integration flows through controlled rings rather than flipping the core in one shot.
- 18Technology
Test Data Masking Factory for ERP Infrastructures
A repeatable masking pipeline for ERP test environments that preserves realistic data behavior, keeps security intact, and is reproducible.
- 19Technology
Safe Version Migration in ERP Infrastructures via Transaction…
A transaction-shadowing approach for testing a new release inside critical ERP flows without producing live impact.
- 20Life
Product Tree Denormalization and the Anatomy of Technical Debt
I share my experience with product tree issues in a manufacturing ERP, the reasons for denormalization, and how technical debt accumulates.
- 21Career
Optimizing Supply Chain Data Flow: 3 Steps for ERP
A 3-step guide to optimizing supply chain data flow in manufacturing ERPs, covering database, transaction queues, and network segmentation.