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.
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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
API DesignResilience
AI Gateway: Cost Control, Failover, and New Risk
An AI gateway centralizes routing, budgets, and credentials for LLM traffic, but it also becomes a critical-path dependency with its own outage risk.
15 min read
Quality & TestingDesign Patterns
Mutation Testing: Your Tests Are Lying and Math Can Prove It
Mutation testing breaks your code on purpose to find tests that verify nothing, turning test quality into a number you can measure. Hands-on with Stryker.NET.
11 min read
GovernanceArchitecture Practices
Data Mesh: Decentralization Without the Anarchy
Data mesh decentralizes data ownership to domain teams without losing a shared language. Why the canonical model matters more than any platform you pick for it.
22 min read
Architecture PracticesStakeholder Management
Architecture Tradeoff Analysis: Picking Your Poison (Carefully)
Architecture tradeoff analysis with ATAM makes hidden trade-offs explicit before anyone decides. The four phases, nine steps, and a lighter version to try out.
18 min read
Design PatternsData Management
Event Sourcing: A History Lesson Your Database Actually Wants
Event Sourcing stores every state change as an immutable event, so your database keeps the full history. When to use it, and a working C# implementation.
15 min read
DevOpsArchitecture Practices
Internal Developer Platforms: Stop Reinventing Wheels in Every Squad
Internal developer platforms stop every squad rebuilding the same pipelines, logging and secrets management, so engineers can spend their time on the product.
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