The Cargo Cult Problem in Software Architecture

Why teams adopt microservices, event sourcing, and CQRS without the conditions that make them work — and what those conditions…

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Why “Make It Work, Then Make It Right, Then Make It Fast” Produces Bad Systems at Scale

Kent Beck’s maxim is genuinely good advice for an individual working on a bounded problem. The argument here is that…

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The Fundamental Tension Between Consistency and Availability Is Not a Technical Problem. It’s a Business Decision Most Engineers Are Making Alone

CAP theorem gets taught as a distributed systems concept. What’s completely missing is the organisational dimension: engineers are making these…

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