If you press your finger against water, it pushes back. That invisible resistance, surface tension, keeps the liquid whole even when disturbed. Good software has something like it. Some systems hold together when you change them; others leak at the ...

Most teams don’t start with architecture problems. They start by building. Fast. A small product, a tight team, a system that does just enough. And for a while, that’s the right choice. You’re shipping. You’re learning. You’re moving. But at some po...

There’s something quietly unsettling about Conway’s Lawhttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Conway%27slaw. Most people who’ve worked in software long enough can sense its truth. What unsettles is what it reveals when you sit with it. The law definit...