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Technical Debt Has a Direction: Why Paying It Down in the Wrong Order Makes Things Worse
The standard advice is to “pay down technical debt.” Rarely discussed is that debt has topology â and tackling the…
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The Cargo Cult Problem in Software Architecture
Why teams adopt microservices, event sourcing, and CQRS without the conditions that make them work â and what those conditions…
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Complexity Has a Ratchet: Why Software Systems Almost Never Get Simpler Over Time and What That Implies for How We Design Them
Every abstraction layer was solving a real problem. Every configuration flag handled a genuine edge case. Every service boundary separated…
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The Reason Most Architecture Decision Records Get Written and Never Read Is Architectural, Not Cultural
Architecture Decision Records are praised universally and practised sporadically. The orthodox explanation is culture and discipline. The deeper argument is…
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The Fundamental Tension Between Consistency and Availability Is Not a Technical Problem. It’s a Business Decision Most Engineers Are Making Alone
CAP theorem gets taught as a distributed systems concept. What’s completely missing is the organisational dimension: engineers are making these…
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Why I Stopped Using Microservices(And What I Replaced Them With)
I spent four years as a true believer. I gave conference talks. I drew the boxes and arrows on whiteboards.…
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Temporal Coupling:The Hidden Dependency That Breaks Systems
Race conditions, event ordering failures, and the “works on my machine” mystery all share the same root cause â a…
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The Language Rewrite Question: When Migration Actually Pays Off â and When It Doesn’t
Discord, Figma, Shopify, and Dropbox all documented their rewrites with real outcomes. There is now enough evidence to build a…
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The ThermoÂdynamics of Software Entropy: Why All Code Tends Toward Disorder
The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy in a closed system never decreases. Software is not exempt. This is…
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