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Helping devs grow into software architects: practical insights, tools, and mindset shifts.
Jul 26, 2026
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6 min read
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
5 min read
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Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #50: The diagram was 3 years out of date.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.
Mar 22, 2026
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #46: The hexagonal architecture that took 7 files to change a button color
Mar 15, 2026
8 min read
Tech Architect Insights - Lesson #45: We found the bottleneck in 48 hours. Management expected 3 months.
Mar 8, 2026
Tech Architect Insights Lesson #44 - Your team loses a full day every week to "works on my machine"
Mar 1, 2026
Tech Architect Insights Lesson #43 - Your team isn't slow. It's stuck in a queue you can't see.
Feb 22, 2026
Tech Architect Insights Lesson #42 - We Had 47 Dependency Violations Nobody Caught Until Production Broke
Feb 15, 2026
Tech Architect Insights Lesson #41- The team spent two weeks debating a decision they could reverse in a day.
Feb 8, 2026
Tech Architect Insights: Lesson #40 - Your Team Rewrote a System That Worked. Here's Why.
