The writing
On enterprise architecture, AI agents, and what actually ships. Long enough to be useful. Short enough to read.
The end of microservices, the start of something quieter
After a decade of distributed-by-default, the cost finally came due. Here is what is actually working in 2026.
When the senior engineer in the room is a model
Architecture conversations now happen with a participant who has read every paper, every blog post, and every Stack Overflow answer. Here is how the meetings change.
The quiet cost of low-code
Three years into a major low-code rollout, the bill arrived. It was not the licence.
The non-coder founder’s stack, 2026 edition
A practical, opinionated tour of the tools I use to ship production software without writing code.
Observability is a product surface, not a job title
Operators do not read your dashboards. They are reading their own panic. Design accordingly.
The Figma-to-deploy shortcut, and what it costs you later
The demo where a Figma file becomes a deployed UI in ten minutes is real. The follow-on work is also real.
Twenty-five years of bad deploys
Every architect has the story. Here are mine, with the lessons attached.
The MCP marketplace thesis
Why I think model-context-protocol is the most interesting platform shift of the decade.
The real cost of a meeting (it is not the salaries)
A meeting costs the salaries in the room. But it costs much more in the cognitive context that does not get rebuilt.