3 pages tagged with "architecture"

Originally drafted in November 2021. Updated with a 2026 lens. Shared data platforms are often proposed as a universal solution: centralize ingestion, storage, query patterns, and governance so product teams can move faster. The promise is attractive. The failure mode is also predictable. This post … read more

For the last decade, our industry mantra has been "Serverless First." We abstracted everything away to Managed Services to move fast, ship features, and let someone else handle the DevOps. That strategy worked when money was free. It doesn't work when margins are shrinking. We are now seei… read more

Geoffrey Hinton, often called the "Godfather of AI," has been sounding the alarm on the existential risks of the very technology he helped pioneer. For many in the industry, it's easy to dismiss this as alarmist sci-fi. But as architects building these systems daily, we see the micro-scale… read more