Five convictions that shape every technical decision we make.
“The best technology is the one that is still a good decision five years from now.”
Complexity isn't managed: it's prevented. Before choosing libraries, we define domain boundaries, allowed dependencies and shapes of change. Architecture is a written contract, not an intuition.
module Sales {
domain Customer
domain Order
domain Invoice
}
policy: no cross-domain SQL.Mature tech has scars: documented bugs, proven patterns, a stable community. That maturity is what lets us sleep while the app runs in production.
Microservices solve organisational problems, not technical ones. Until the team grows to sustain them, a monolith with clear modules ships better velocity, observability and cost.
Short functions, honest names, explicit dependencies. The patterns that have worked for four decades are still our first option.
We don't scale what hasn't suffered real load yet. We measure, find the bottleneck and optimise that part. Over-engineering is debt too.
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