The Enterprise Alchemists — Archived

Dominic Wellington & Guy Murphy — SnapLogic
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The Enterprise Alchemists is a new podcast for Enterprise Architects to have honest and in-depth conversations about what is relevant to our world. Expert guests provide additional context on the topics of the day in Enterprise IT.Your hosts, Guy Murphy and Dominic Wellington, are Enterprise Architects at SnapLogic, with more decades of experience between them than they care to admit to, and the stories that go with it.

  1. Jul 20

    Farewell!

    Thank you for listening! The Enterprise Alchemists podcast is moving to a new home, and we are also adding optional video feeds. Join us for Season Four onwards by searching for us wherever you download your podcasts; I will update these notes with the correct URL once it is live.  Until then, thank you for listening, and we hope you will continue to listen from Season Four and into the future!

  2. 12/16/2025

    From Poacher to Gamekeeper: practitioner perspectives on the vendor side

    A candid look at turning AI hype into production results, told through the lens of Prakhar Srivastava, our newest recruit on the Enterprise Architecture team at SnapLogic. Over the years, Prakhar has been a practitioner, a consultant, and a vendor, and shares perspectives from each of those roles. We map lessons from SOA and APIs to agentic AI, and show how governance, data fabric, and empathy drive real outcomes in complex, regulated environments, using Prakhar's experience in the airline industry as a guide. • three lenses on enterprise architecture and value • composable enterprise as an AI readiness strategy • agents as APIs with memory and similar pitfalls • need for gateways, meshes, and security guardrails • four risks to manage: governance, interoperability, trust, security • data as water and the role of a fabric • crawl‑walk‑run roadmap from use case to production • outsourcing lessons and knowledge repatriation • retraining, drift, and resilient deployments • empathy and partnering over hard selling

  3. 11/21/2025

    Taming AI Tool Sprawl: from siloed features to a shared AI layer across the enterprise

    We explore how embedded AI in SaaS tools amplifies sprawl and risk, and outline a practical path to governed, composable, cross‑platform agents. Chris Ward shares real use cases for Customer 360 and finance reconciliation, plus metrics, onboarding and versioning that keep AI accountable. The LinkedIn post that kicked everything off More details on the finance use case Chris discussed SnapLogic's own support for MCP

  4. 10/21/2025

    From SOA To Composability: Why Now Is The Time For Composable Architecture

    Composable architecture isn’t a buzzword; it’s the overdue upgrade to lessons we learned the hard way in the SOA era. We share a pragmatic path from heavyweight standards and ESB monocultures to API-first, domain-driven systems that actually deliver reuse, speed, and resilience across cloud and on-prem. With guest Brad Drysdale, we map the shift from monoliths to distributed services, the rise of REST and gateways, and why a discovery-led mindset matters more than any protocol. We dig into the techniques that make composability real: treat API contracts as products in their own right, with owners, roadmaps, and strong versioning; build a living catalogue that developers can trust; and use domain-driven design to create bounded contexts that align services to business language. We talk openly about governance debt, API sprawl, and the trap of point-to-point integrations disguised as microservices. Then we connect the dots to modern DevOps — Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure as code — showing how to run heterogeneous, multi-cloud estates without drowning in complexity. Now AI raises the stakes. Agents need secure, reliable access to knowledge and tools; contracts machines can interpret; and guardrails that earn trust. We compare REST and OpenAPI to emerging agent-to-agent standards like MCP, and explain why the future likely builds on today’s contracts rather than replacing them. Finally, we explore vibe coding’s next act: vibe orchestration, mapping intent to capabilities letting AI assemble outcomes from a curated service catalogue. The takeaway is simple: composability scales when you fund shared capabilities, measure adoption, and make reuse the default. If this sparked ideas for your stack or strategy, follow the show, share it with a colleague, and get in touch with your questions and suggestions. Your stories and challenges shape what we explore next.

  5. 10/07/2025

    The Crossover Episode: Architecting for AI in highly-regulated enterprises

    Pressure to “do something with AI” is loud, but the stakes are higher when patient data, regulators, and legacy systems meet non‑deterministic models. We sat down with the hosts of the Enterprise Architecture Experience podcast — Hassan Abba from AstraZeneca and Jon Hill from Alvotech — to compare how a global R&D giant and a thousand‑person biopharma scale-up are making AI useful without trading away trust. The conversation gets practical fast: where AI speeds discovery, where it should never touch regulated data, and how to draw clean lines that everyone can work with.

  6. 09/23/2025

    How Semantic ETL Redefines TIME ITSELF And Enables The Fully Automated Enterprise — with Gene Linetsky, CIO of Embroker

    Welcome to Season Three of the Enterprise Alchemists podcasts! We start the season with a special guest: Gene Linetsky, CTO of Embroker. Gene talks to Guy and Dominic about his need to integrate bettter with existing systems and processes to avoid wasting the time of over-qualified human users. AgentCreator from SnapLogic solved the technical problem, thanks to what Gene describes as "semantic ETL", but that leads to more philosophical questions. Over the course of the episode, Gene describes how agentic flows are ultimately a management question: humans will still be a lot better positioned to organize the work, whether that is carried out by humans or by AI agents. The goal is to facilitate the work solving business problems with code, not just solving coding problems.

  7. 01/20/2025

    Legacy System Integration: Modernization with AI Innovations

    Can outdated systems silently threaten the very core of your business? This episode, Guy and Dominic welcome the expert insights of Simona Todoroska from IWConnect to discuss the pressing issues surrounding legacy system integration and migration. Simona sheds light on how the historical reluctance to engage with legacy systems has created significant challenges for modern enterprises. We dive into the critical need for businesses to reevaluate their existing technologies to ensure they are future-ready, scalable, and secure. The conversation also delves into the risks of neglecting modernization, emphasizing how catastrophic failures in outdated systems could lead to dire consequences. The discussion dives into the complexities of migrating from legacy systems to modern integration platforms, highlighting the challenges enterprises face when clinging to outdated technologies. Through real-world examples and a discussion on the importance of automation and AI in the migration process, we present practical strategies for successful transformation. • Exploring the tension around updating legacy systems  • Understanding the risks of relying on outdated technology  • Discussing the role of automation in migrations  • Demonstrating the significance of the analysis phase  • Introducing AI agents Pete and Alex for improving documentation  • Highlighting the NL2SQL functionality for user empowerment  • Emphasising the importance of upfront analysis for success Pete: https://iwconnect.com/virtual-assistant-pete/ Alex: https://iwconnect.com/alex-virtual-storytelling-agent/  NL to SQL: https://iwconnect.com/natural-language-to-sql-generator/

  8. 01/13/2025

    Transforming Integration with Creative User Experiences

    Matthew Holloway, Head of Global Design at SnapLogic, joins Guy and Dominic to unravel the complexities of designing user-centered enterprise integration platforms. Matthew shares strategies for presenting complex data to diverse user expertise levels, and some of what he has learned from how SnapLogic's groundbreaking tools, Iris and SnapGPT, are redefining data pipeline creation. In design as in tech, it turns out to be critical to pinpoint the right problems before rushing to “solutioneer...

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The Enterprise Alchemists is a new podcast for Enterprise Architects to have honest and in-depth conversations about what is relevant to our world. Expert guests provide additional context on the topics of the day in Enterprise IT.Your hosts, Guy Murphy and Dominic Wellington, are Enterprise Architects at SnapLogic, with more decades of experience between them than they care to admit to, and the stories that go with it.

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