https://blog.rickwaterman.com/tags/architecture/Recent content in Architecture on BlogHugoen-USTue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/if-you-are-not-part-of-the-implementation/Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/if-you-are-not-part-of-the-implementation/An architect who does not ship code has no feedback loop, and an architecture with no feedback loop is a guess with a diagram. Own a real piece of the build — the hard module, the infrastructure as code, the review queue — or accept that the team will route around you.https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/boring-managed-services-win/Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rickwaterman.com/posts/boring-managed-services-win/Every queue, scheduler, or database you run yourself spends an innovation token on something your customers will never notice. Managed AWS services are boring in the best sense: their failure modes are documented, their metrics ship by default, and the toil they remove is the toil nobody measures.