Quality & TestingGovernance
Accessibility Testing: What axe-core Cannot See
Axe-core catches about 57% of accessibility issues by one count. Here is what it cannot see, and who should own the rest.
18 min read
Governance
Architecture governance and compliance
GovernanceQuality & Testing
Agentic Fitness Functions: When the Evaluator Has Judgement
Agentic fitness functions use a calibrated AI agent to judge architecture drift a script cannot, and post a verdict without blocking the build.
15 min read
Architecture PracticesGovernance
Architecture Capability Framework: Scoring Your Own Practice
Score your architecture practice against TOGAF's Architecture Capability Framework, not the business, with a maturity model you can defend to a CIO.
12 min read
GovernanceSecurity
Sovereign Cloud Strategy: Residency Is Not Enough
Sovereign cloud vendors sell EU regions and sovereign SKUs, but the US CLOUD Act reaches data by possession, not location. Decide the real threat first.
9 min read
GovernanceArchitecture Practices
Data Mesh: Decentralization Without the Anarchy
Inside a single telco, "Service" means four different things across four different teams. This is the problem data mesh was built to solve and why getting the canonical model right matters more than any platform decision.
22 min read
GovernanceDevOps
Automate or Fall Behind: Why Continuous Compliance Is Non-Negotiable
Stop treating compliance as a quarterly fire drill. By embedding automated policy checks, SBOM generation, and evidence collection directly into your CI/CD pipeline, you can stay continuously audit-ready, catch violations before they ship, and spend less time reconstructing history at 3 AM.
17 min read
DocumentationGovernance
From Solo Prompts to Team Superpowers: Scaling AI with Shared Instructions
The senior developer leaned back in her chair, watching the new hire struggle with the same AI prompt she'd seen three other teammates wrestle with that week. "Try asking it to include error handling and logging," she called across the room. The junior dev nodded, retyped the prompt, and got better results. But tomorrow, someone else would hit the same wall. Again.
10 min read
Architecture PracticesGovernance
Reuse Over Custom Code: Why Solution Architects Must Break the Developer Mindset
Discover why reusing existing solutions before buying commercial tools and building custom ones can save your team time, money, and resources.
10 min read
Governance
Architecture Governance: The Invisible Backbone of Success
It always started the same way: Bold visions, ambitious strategies, and the promise of seamless digital transformation. Yet, within a year, enterprise architecture efforts would crumble into fragmented systems, unchecked technical debt, and a battle between IT and business leaders. The reason? A lack of governance.
4 min read