About the Author

Viquar Khan

Viquar Khan is a Senior Data Architect at AWS Professional Services, bringing over 20+ years of expertise in finance and data analytics, empowering global financial institutions to harness the full potential of AWS technologies. He designs advanced, customized data solutions tailored to complex industry needs.

Professional Background

A polyglot developer skilled in Java, Scala, Python, and other languages, Viquar has excelled in various technical roles. As an expert group member of JSR 368 (Java™ Message Service 2.1), he has shaped industry standards and actively contributes to open-source projects like Apache Spark and Terraform. His technical insights have reached and benefited over 7.5 million users on Stack Overflow.

Viquar brings deep expertise in:

The Adaptive Granularity Strategy

Viquar is the creator of The Adaptive Granularity Strategy (Author’s Method), The Service Decomposition Workflow (Author’s Method), and The Microservices Maturity Assessment (Author’s Method) — proprietary methodologies that represent original syntheses and scoring methodologies designed to operationalize distributed systems theory.

These frameworks stand on the shoulders of giants, building upon foundational works including:

Publications

Philosophy

“Stop splitting, start governing.” — Viquar Khan

The modern architect acts not as a dictator of blueprints but as a gardener of ecosystems, cultivating a landscape where independent teams can thrive without descending into chaos.

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Dedication

To the engineers who have been woken up at 3:00 AM by a PagerDuty alert caused by a distributed transaction that wasn’t.

And to the architects who understand that the most important lines on a diagram are not the boxes, but the empty spaces between them where the network lives.

“The goal is not to build the perfect architecture, but to build an architecture that can evolve toward perfection.” — Viquar Khan