Architecture

New frameworks drop constantly, each promising to change everything. Chasing them is how teams end up rewriting instead of shipping. Here's how to choose a stack you'll still be happy with later.

Engineers love to build. That instinct, applied to everything, is how teams drown in maintaining undifferentiated infrastructure instead of shipping what makes them special.

Expensive lessons in coupling and premature scaling. The five design decisions I'd undo in a heartbeat — and what I do instead now.

I split a small app into microservices to look serious. It cost us a year. Here's the architecture mistake I'd warn every engineer about.