Continuous Architecture
Architecture is a continuous, socio-technical activity — not a one-off decision.
“Model the domain, not the database.”
I’m Kim Kao (高翊凱) — a Solutions Architecture manager at AWS and co-founder of the DDD Taiwan community. I help teams evolve their architecture as their business actually changes.
Latest writing
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Compared to What? A Retail Client, a Kubernetes Prescription, and a 20-Year-Old System
A client arrived certain that Kubernetes would fix everything. The real work was understanding the problem they had already skipped past.
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Architecture Is a Verb
Why I think of architecture as a continuous, socio-technical activity — and what this blog will be about.
Speaking & interviews
All talks →- 2026 They Knew the Answer Before They Understood the Problem VirtualDDD interview Interview
- 2025 Enhancing Application Modernization with AIDLC AWS Community Day Taiwan 2025 Talk
- 2023 Distributed System Design — APAC best practices AWS re:Invent 2023 · BOA-309 Talk
- 2023 The Value Flywheel Effect Agile Summit Taiwan 2023 · DDDesign Taiwan Talk
- 2023 Refactoring to Serverless JCConf 2023 Talk
- 2021 Continuous Architecture: Embracing Multiple Viewpoints DDD Taiwan Conference 2021 Talk
Books & forewords
About me →- Domain-Driven Design (15th Anniversary, zh-Hant)
- Domain Storytelling
- Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures on AWS
- SRE & Internal Developer Platform Guide
- Deconstructing Domain-Driven Design
- Tech Industry English Communication Guide