Understanding Modular Architecture
After seeing a modular monolith migrate to microservices, I had more questions than answers. This was me working through them.
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How I think
Writing, learning,
and thinking out loud
A running snapshot of what I'm reading, building towards, and forming opinions on.
Writing
Published articles
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Application Architecture Styles: Layered Architecture
A coworker introduced me to layered architecture and I realized I had a blind spot. This is me working through it. A first in a series on architecture styles!
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Application Architecture Styles: Hexagonal/Onion Architecture
My second article in a series on architecture styles!
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What I'm into
Reading
ReAct Framework
Learning about good prompting frameworks that are already built into models.
Researching
Pipes and Filters Architecture
Digging into pipes and filters architecture as part of my series on architecture styles. Want to understand it properly before I write about it.
Experimenting with
Agentic AI
Going through DataCamp's Agentic AI track, then building a research agent to make it stick.
Opinions
Short takes
On AI
The best thing about agentic AI isn't the automation. It's that building with it forces you to think more carefully about what a "task" actually is.
On architecture
I'd rather spend an extra day getting the architecture right than a week untangling it later. That said, I know when a deadline is a deadline.
On engineering
Most engineers underrate the value of slowing down to research first. Taking time to understand ACID compliance before touching our database saved us from a class of bugs we never had to debug.
In progress
Learning log
AI agents
In progress
Going through DataCamp's Agentic AI track to understand how agents work under the hood — then building my own projects to make it stick.
Systems design
In progress
Not just for interviews! Designing at scale forces clearer thinking about tradeoffs I usually gloss over.