More than a design guide, the Reactive Manifesto triggered a shift in how developers approach time, failure, control, and team dynamics. This post traces its deeper impact — across technical, philosophical, psychological, and cultural lines.
Behind every new language is an old idea we forgot to name. This post explores how Landin’s paper helped us see code as scaffolding for thought — and why that lens still matters.
Architecture isn’t just technical — it’s psychological, cultural, and historical. This piece explores how ideas like Conway’s Law, DDD, and platform thinking reshaped problem decomposition and organisational design.
This post explores the deep impact of Moseley and Marks' work on software architecture, drawing out its technical, historical, philosophical, and cultural significance.
We follow the curve — from greedy to elastic, from clustered chaos to calm — and show how one small shift bends the whole system.
Leadership Without the Handbrake The worst kind of tech leadership doesn’t look evil. It looks helpful. It’s the tech lead reviewing every line of code. The …
Most Arch install guides read like someone dumped their terminal history into a blog and called it a day. I wanted more than that. I wanted a system that was …
Most teams don’t fail because the people are bad. They fail because the system they’re in makes doing the right thing harder than it should be. You’ve seen it …
This isn’t just about faster hash tables. It’s about breaking long-standing assumptions — and what that shift means for building tighter, simpler, more resilient systems.
This isn’t just about one paper. It’s about the shift it caused — from chasing tools to understanding systems, from hoping for miracles to working with reality.
A deep dive into Richard Gabriel’s provocative thesis — and why software that survives often starts simple, flawed, and just good enough.