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Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, centralized architectural decision-making can become a bottleneck to delivery performance and innovation. Through stories from our own journey, we’ll share how decentralizing decisions improved alignment across teams, empowered faster decision-making, and fostered a culture of ownership.
on Nov 03, 2025 -
Three Questions That Help You Build a Better Software Architecture
To architect effectively for an MVP, teams must answer three questions in order: Is the business idea worth pursuing? What performance and scalability are needed? How much maintainability and supportability are required? These guide Minimum Viable Architecture decisions. Empirical testing helps reject costly assumptions early and adapt architecture as the MVP evolves.
on Oct 21, 2025 -
If Architectures Could Talk, They’d Quote Your Boss
Software architecture reflects how organizations communicate and make decisions. Failures stem from misaligned incentives, unclear ownership, and structural gaps—not technical flaws. Architects must design not just systems, but the conditions for systems to thrive, using platform thinking to reduce friction and foster autonomy.
on Oct 15, 2025 -
A Pipeline Approach to Language Migrations
Automated language migrations can be made reliable and maintainable by structuring them as pipelines with clear, testable stages. This avoids the pitfalls of big-bang rewrites while providing transparency and modularity. The pipeline approach ensures idiomatic code, preserves legacy business logic, and supports large-scale transformations from outdated systems.
on Oct 01, 2025 -
Engineering a Time Series Database Using Open Source: Rebuilding InfluxDB 3 in Apache Arrow and Rust
At times, to evolve your product, you need to rebuild it from scratch. The article provides the story behind the rewrite of InfluxDB from scratch using a different programming language - Rust - and stack - Apache Flight, Data Fusion, Apache Arrow and Parquet (FDAP). It emphasises the benefits, as well as the mechanics behind its operation and the different versions of the product.
on Sep 10, 2025 -
Effective Practices for Architecting a RAG Pipeline
Hybrid search, smart chunking, and domain-aware indexing are key to building effective RAG pipelines. Context window limits and prompt quality critically affect LLM response accuracy. This article provides lessons learned from setting up a RAG pipeline.
on Sep 03, 2025 -
The Virtual Think Tank: Using LLMs to Gain a Multitude of Perspectives
The virtual think tank leverages LLMs to simulate diverse stakeholder and expert perspectives, enabling architects to explore trade-offs, challenge biases, and refine decisions. By prompting personas of real industry experts, the method fosters rich, contextual debates—offering a scalable, low-cost alternative to a traditional think tank.
on Aug 28, 2025 -
The Missing Layer in AI Infrastructure: Aggregating Agentic Traffic
In this article, author Eyal Solomon discusses AI Gateways, the outbound proxy servers that intercept and manage AI-agent-initiated traffic in real time to enforce policies and provide central management.
on Aug 22, 2025 -
Sandbox as a Service: Building an Automated AWS Sandbox Framework
This article outlines an automated AWS Sandbox Framework to provide secure, cost-controlled environments for innovation. It leverages AWS services like Control Tower and open-source tools to automate provisioning, enforce security policies, manage resource lifecycles, and optimize costs through automated cleanup and governance.
on Aug 11, 2025 -
Keep the Terminal Relevant: Patterns for AI Agent Driven CLIs
Well-designed CLIs are crucial in the agentic AI era—serving both human users and autonomous agents with precision and reliability. Treat CLI output formats as stable API contracts and prioritize adoption of the MCP protocol for agent integration from day one.
on Aug 08, 2025 -
Jakarta EE 11 Overview: Virtual Threads, Records, and the Future of Persistence
Jakarta EE 11 delivers enhancements that include support for Java 17 and 21, integration with Java records and virtual threads, and the introduction of the Jakarta Data specification for unified SQL and NoSQL persistence. This release simplifies enterprise Java and establishes the groundwork for Jakarta EE 12, which will advance capabilities in data management.
on Jul 29, 2025 -
Understanding and Mitigating High Energy Consumption in Microservices
Microservices often consume more energy than monoliths due to distributed overhead. Architects can make design decisions that improve sustainability. This article covers several techniques, such as defining clear service boundaries, optimizing service granularity, using energy-efficient deployment regions, and consolidating workloads.
on Jul 28, 2025