Tropism: Architecture the Agentic Loop Can Actually Check
Types made “this value is a string” checkable. Tests made behaviour checkable. Nothing ever made “the API layer must not talk to the data layer” checkable — cheaply, across …
Architecture
A Rust-Native Architecture Toolchain: forge, puml, and adoc
A Rust-Native Architecture Toolchain: forge, puml, and adoc Replacing the JVM and Ruby pieces of the architecture documentation stack with single static binaries Most of the tools I reach for when …
Service IoC containers
How can we get the benefits of IoC containers at a higher level - the services that we deploy into environments? Typical service tiers are implemented with a fronting load balancer that allocates …
I can't believe I missed this!
Just over 20 years ago Jack W. Reeves wrote an article in the C++ Journal entitled “What is Software Design?” and I missed it. Not only that but no one thought to point out that I was …
Insulating against failure using Caching Reverse Proxies
Reverse proxies have been around for a very long time and depending on your application either interesting additions or a key element to your architecture. Despite their long history I was recently …