Being flexible and adaptable
Adaptability and flexibility go hand in hand, and as a solutions architect, you must be flexible to adapt to new environments, working cultures, and technologies. Adaptability means you are always open to new ideas and to working with appropriate teams.
Teams may adopt a process and technology that is best suited for them. As a solutions architect, you must be flexible in accommodating team requirements during solution design. For example, in a microservices architecture, each service communicates via a standard RESTful API over the HTTP protocol. Teams may write code in a different language or tool, such as Python, Java, Node.js, or C#. The only requirement is that teams expose their APIs securely so that the entire system can build upon utilizing them.
You need different mindsets and perspectives to look into a problem and get a more innovative solution. Encouraging teams to fail fast and innovate helps an organization to be competitive.
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