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Helping devs grow into software architects: practical insights, tools, and mindset shifts.
Sep 13, 2026
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5 min read
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #71: Nobody has to prove you're locked in. You declare it yourself every March.
Sep 6, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #70: The clock starts when you decide.
Aug 30, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #69: Down is an event. Wrong is a condition.
Aug 23, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #68: An exception you've never tested is a single point of failure with a good story attached.
Aug 16, 2026
6 min read
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #67: The failure wasn't yours. The experience was.
Aug 9, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #66: You Have a Vendor List. You Don't Have a Dependency Map.
Aug 2, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #65: Six issues, rearranged into a two-week assessment. The order matters more than the analysis does.
Jul 26, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #64: With an AI feature, the percentage is the easy part. Which customers you pick, and what you can't take back, is the rest.
Jul 19, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #63: AI features fail with a 200 OK. The degraded path is a product decision, and it has to be designed before you need it.
Jul 12, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #62: You picked the inputs, so of course it looked good. Build the eval that grades the inputs you didn't pick.
Jul 5, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #61: Your database keeps tenants apart. The AI layer is a new data path, and it doesn't inherit that boundary.
Jun 28, 2026
4 min read
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #60: Model what it costs to serve your heaviest customer before you ship. The average will lie to you.
Jun 21, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #59: Stop shipping the feature that demos well. Start from the number you're trying to move.
Jun 14, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #58: The three numbers that survive a board meeting
Jun 7, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #57: Your deploy frequency doubled. So did your change failure rate.
May 31, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #56: Your team got faster. Your delivery didn't.
May 24, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #55: The RFC that got approved in one meeting (after months of failed chat debates)
May 17, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #54: The service that was down for 6 hours before anyone noticed
May 10, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #53: One bad deploy took down a service. But only for 2% of users.
May 3, 2026
7 min read
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #52: The architect who saved $140K by reading one AWS bill
Apr 26, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #51: We over-corrected on event payloads. Twice.
Apr 19, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #50: The diagram was 3 years out of date. We had to map production from scratch.
Apr 12, 2026
11 min read
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #49: Your API wasn't designed for callers that never sleep
Apr 5, 2026
9 min read
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #48: Step 4 of 6 failed. Now what? The saga pattern nobody finishes implementing.
Mar 29, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #47: We split into 14 services. We should have split into 3.
