Tag: architecture
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Code was the least interesting part of my multi-agent app, and here’s what that means to me – Less time coding means more time designing and product managing.
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Expert Generalists – ”Traditional interview loops still revolve around product trivia – “Explain Spark’s shuffle stages,” “How does Databricks Delta time-travel work?” A candidate who has never touched those tools can still be exactly the kind of person we need: someone who quickly grasps unfamiliar concepts, breaks complex systems into manageable parts, and collaborates across…
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Did we just make platform engineering much easier by shipping a cloud IDP?Architecture Musings – Google Cloud IDP.
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Scaling Vibe-Coding in Enterprise IT: A CTO’s Guide to Navigating Architectural Complexity, Product Management and Governance devops.com/scaling-v… There’s some AI middleware considerations (people stuff) towards the end of this how to enterprise vibe coding (in the expansive definition of vibe coding, just using AI to help write code). Part of it is: you still have…
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The Triad of Agent Architecture: ADK, MCP, and Cloud Run –
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The work at hand – “Vernacular institutions:” They are more useful than they are legible.
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The Titan Who Couldn’t Let Go – Founder mode case study: “There’s a pattern here, and it’s bigger than Hughes. Obsession works–in short bursts, in narrow contexts, with clear feedback loops. But scale it up, let it harden into infrastructure, and it starts to rot the system from the inside. Hughes structurally disallowed any process…
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“Still Federating After All These Years”: The Realities Of EA Maturation – Letter from the enterprise architect club.
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Refactoring to understand and “vibe coding” – ”Code is not the most valuable artifact. Your understanding of the codebase is.”
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Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes – by Brian Potter – ”Ultimately, it was economics (or at least perceived economics) that drove developers to embrace this style. Glass curtain wall buildings were cheaper to erect than their masonry predecessors, and they allowed developers to squeeze more rentable space from the same building footprint. Ornate, detailed exteriors…
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“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study – ”Key features of Machiavelli’s personality come out: he can be as vulgar as the villagers; he bickers with them, delighting in puns and innuendos. Minutely attuned to their foibles and peccadillos, nothing is lost on him. He deprecates his now…
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– Embracing Antifragility: Building Resilient Products in an Uncertain World – You can read this as a take on what it means to be a “learning organization.” As ever, the hardest, most mysterious, least airport business book-ized topic is “how do we change from ‘traditional’ to this whiz-bang method?”
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– Stop Team Topologies – Don’t use an understandable system to avoid asking why you’re doing anything in the first place. // Or: all the value is in the “it depends.”
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Platform Engineering: Why You’re Doing It Wrong – Hopefully also how to do to real right.
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Using app architecture constraints and templates in platform engineering
Platforms have many opinions, app architecture is one of them This is an excerpt from a new blog post of mine covering a recent panel with platform engineers from Charles Schwab. I’ve made some slight changes. Ensuring platform scalability and resilience starts with making sure applications are architected appropriately. Nowadays, that usually means using a…
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3 Key Practices for Perfecting Cloud Native Architecture – Some notes on cloud native architecture and app patterns. That is, apps you want to run in container platforms like Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes.
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How the buildings you occupy might be affecting your brain | Psyche Ideas – “Could bad architecture also be contributing to the development of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders?”
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The beauty of concrete – “ornament survives in the mass-market housebuilder market because the people buying new-build homes at this price point are less likely to be influenced by elite fashions than are the committees that commission government buildings or corporate headquarters. The explanation, in other words, is a matter of what people demand, not…
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“Consistency” – the less platforms, the better
Have you tried having less? Standardized. Centralized. Consistent. Those words I use over and over when talking about platforms. In large organizations, you’ve got hundreds, even thousands, of applications. There are likely tens of “platforms”: the stacks of runtime and middleware goo that all those apps run on. Maybe even hundreds if the company is…
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Against optimization – The idea that you need slack in the system intuitively makes sense, but it feels hard to prove ahead of time. The powers that be have to believe that things will go wrong, but they’re usually so focused on things going right (sometimes hubris, sometimes too much trust-by-ignorance) and pre-optimize. // “A…
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