architecture

Support Constant Change, and the Quiet Case Against Deciding Everything on Day One

The Science of Being Wrong About the Future With Spreadsheets

Favor Has-A Over Is-A, Or Else

Any Organization That Designs a System Will Produce a Design Whose Structure Is a Copy of the Organization's Communication Structure

Passing Arguments to Functions, but Enterprise

Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, and the Misunderstanding That Lasted Thirty Years

The Bus That Became the Destination

Where Software Goes to Become Expensive

The Operating System That Wrote Everything Except the Operating System

The Heartbeat That Runs Everything and Admits Nothing

The Social Network for People Who Don't Like Social Networks

The Company That Organized the World's Information and Disorganized Its Own Products

Ask for Exactly What You Need, Then Spend a Week Securing It

Code That Works, Written by Someone Who Left, in a Style That Is No Longer Fashionable

The Architecture That Refuses to Believe Anything Anyone Tells It

The Operating System That Won Everything Except the Desktop

A Programming Model for Processing Large Datasets by Pretending It Was Invented in 2004

Forty-Seven Network Calls in a Trench Coat Pretending to Be Architecture

The Empire That Lost, Then Won, Then Lost, Then Won Again

Building the Cathedral When You Needed a Shed

Representational State Transfer, or The PhD Thesis That Became a Religion

This Time We'll Do It Right

Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing, or The Software That Processes You

The Request That Stops Existing When the Container Stops Existing

The Decisions You Can't Undo, Made by People Who Won't Be Here

The Enterprise Platform That Refused to Be Enterprise

The Architecture That Was Drawn Whole, Built In Slices, or Sunk

The Answer That Was Always There, Waiting Patiently at 47 Milliseconds

The Forcing Function That Turns Generalization Into Evidence

Now Let's Do It Right

The Record That Grew Under the Platform

Broadcasting the Municipal Gazette to an Empty Town Square at 3 AM

The Operating System You Didn't Choose But Can't Leave