Your system has a story. Can you tell it?

👋 Hey there,

Have you ever reviewed a system design that looked polished, but still felt... unclear?

The diagrams were sharp. The slide deck was 12 pages.
And yet no one in the room could confidently answer:

This happens more often than you think, not because the system is bad, but because no one has actually tried to tell its story out loud.

As developers, we’re taught to focus on implementation.
As architects, we need to focus on intent.

💡Architecture Is a Story You Should Be Able to Tell

Every system tells a story, even if you didn’t mean for it to.

The question is: can you tell it on purpose?

If someone asked you to explain your system to a new teammate, without opening code, slides, or Miro, could you do it?

Here’s a simple stress test: