Everything written about senior architecture work is written after the fact. The strategy succeeded. The strategy stranded. The transformation landed. The transformation failed. The lessons get drawn from a position where the outcome is settled and the writer can see the arc cleanly. That distance is what makes the reflection possible. It is also what…
Edition 5 of this newsletter looked outward. Twenty five years of technology paradigm shifts, from mainframe to AI, and what it felt like to live through them as a practitioner. That was an external arc. The world changing and the work changing with it. Edition 10 looks inward. This is a personal reflection. Not a…
Every generation of technologists inherits a set of assumptions about how systems are built, how they behave, and what they are for. And every generation, without exception, has had those assumptions overturned. The pace at which that happens has never been constant. But the direction has never reversed. The mainframe era defined computing as centralised,…