If no one understands it, it’s not architecture.

👋 Hi there,

Let me start with a story I’ve seen too many times:

A senior dev joins a team and takes charge of a redesign.
They know the system deeply. They’re fast. Confident. Smart.

They build something elegant, efficient, even scalable.
But there’s no brief. No diagram. No discussion of tradeoffs.
The knowledge lives mostly in Slack threads… or worse, in their head.

A few months later, they’re reassigned. Or leave.
Another team inherits the system.

They can’t figure out the patterns.
They don’t know why certain decisions were made.
They hesitate to change anything.
They introduce a workaround and accidentally break a core behavior.

And just like that, the architecture starts to rot.

💡 Architecture Is What You Can Explain

There’s this quiet myth among devs:

But systems don’t speak for themselves. People explain them.
And if you can’t explain a system clearly to your team, your stakeholders, or your future self, it’s not finished.

Great architects don’t just design systems.
They design shared understanding.

Because when architecture scales across teams, clarity becomes more important than cleverness.

🔍 Why This Matters More Than You Think

This isn’t just about writing docs. It’s about being a force multiplier.

Here’s what happens when you build a habit of architectural communication: