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.
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 before. Talented engineers grinding away, frustrated by endless blockers. Architecture that’s more cage than canvas. Leadership that says “go fast” but needs a meeting for every change. That’s not a team problem. That’s an org design problem. The API Memo That Changed the Internet In the early 2000s, Jeff Bezos sent a now-famous internal memo to every team at Amazon: ...
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.
The Invisible Ceilings of Cloud Infrastructure What Pinterest’s EC2 throttling incident—and others like it—teach us about building resilient systems in a black box world. When the Cloud Slows Down, Quietly It started with user complaints. Pages were loading slowly. API calls were timing out. Internal dashboards lagged behind real-time. Something was wrong—but none of the usual suspects showed up. No alerts fired. No dashboards lit up. Logs were clean. And yet the system was clearly sick. ...