Backpressure Is Your Safety Net
Tech Architect Insights Lesson #20 - Don’t “handle all load”, control the flow to protect the critical path
Sep 21, 2025
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Idempotency Everywhere
Tech Architect Insights Lesson #19 - Make retries safe so reversibility, rollbacks, and resilience actually work
Sep 14, 2025
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Design for Reversibility
Tech Architect Insights Lesson #18 - Ship faster by making decisions you can undo cheaply.
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SLOs & Error Budgets - Ship With Guardrails
Tech Architect Insights Lesson #21 - Move fast within reliability budgets so you never melt the core path again.
Sep 28, 2025
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10 min read
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Aug 31, 2025
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Tech Architect Insights Lesson #16 - Great architects don’t eliminate complexity, they decide where it belongs.
Aug 24, 2025
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The First Diagram Is Always Wrong
Lesson #15: Tech Architect Insights – Why architects treat initial designs as starting points, not final answers
Aug 17, 2025
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