Articles

Your Deployment Pipeline Is Part of the Architecture

Why backward compatibility, migrations, version coexistence and recovery belong in system design - not just in the CI/CD checklist.

architecture, deployment, ci-cd, backward-compatibility

Optimize for Understanding, Not Reuse

Why shared abstractions and premature frameworks often increase complexity - and when a little duplication might be the better design choice.

architecture, software-design, abstraction, code-reuse

Why You Probably Don't Need Microservices

A pragmatic look at when a monolith is the right choice and how to avoid distributed-system complexity you haven't earned.

architecture, microservices, distributed-systems