SPAN worked closely with senior client technical leaders to document the architecture of their entire music service solution.
Challenge
- Develop a coherent and accurate visual representation of a massive, constantly-evolving, global, multi-billion-dollar digital media service
- Ensure hundreds of engineers can consume it and keep it current
Solution
- Conducted over 40 design-capture sessions with client engineering teams
- Consolidated and rationalized the information into a comprehensive architectural model
- Delivered the information in a SPAN-engineered software tool that enables contributors to easily query, visualize, and maintain the captured information
Results
Integration of SPAN’s architecture modeling system throughout the organization significantly accelerates new-engineer onboarding, enables informed design and planning, catalogs systems interdependencies, locates technical debt, and propagates information on current system state organization-wide.
