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Seeing Beyond the Boxes and Arrows
Two recent design discussions at work left me reflecting on a handful of recurring patterns that can prevent architecture conversations from moving forward. In…
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Architecting for Change - Part V: Why Architecture Review Boards Make Complexity Worse
In the previous post in this series, I looked at accidental complexity and how it enters a system. When organisations begin to feel the effects of accidental…
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Microservices Did Not Fail. The Boundaries Did.
This post comes off the back of a week of seeing the same old “microservices are bad, monoliths are good” arguments. In some contexts, that reaction is…
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Architecting for Change Part IV: How Accidental Complexity Gets Into a System
Accidental complexity rarely announces itself. It usually arrives as drag. Changes that should be straightforward take longer than expected. Teams need more…
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