--- title: Architecture Beyond Domains • EAWheel | daily.dev description: Traditional Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF divide work into four domains (business, data, application, technology), creating silos that fragment... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/architecture-beyond-domains-eawheel-l68pfzqze twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Architecture Beyond Domains • EAWheel | daily.dev og:description: Traditional Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF divide work into four domains (business, data, application, technology), creating silos that fragment... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/architecture-beyond-domains-eawheel-l68pfzqze og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/l68pfZqZE.png og:image:alt: Architecture Beyond Domains • EAWheel og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Architecture Beyond Domains • EAWheel **[EAWheel](https://daily.dev/sources/eawheel)** · 7 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Traditional Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF divide work into four domains (business, data, application, technology), creating silos that fragment responsibility and limit holistic thinking. A more effective approach views architecture through organizational scope levels—Enterprise, Segment, and Solution Architects—where each role maintains an organization-wide perspective at different granularities. The Enterprise Architecture Implementation Wheel offers a modern alternative that centers architecture as a guiding force through continuous cycles of documenting, defining, executing, and controlling, rather than partitioning by domain. This shift enables architects to contribute across all concerns while maintaining strategic coherence and alignment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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