What to Open, What to Close: A Pragmatic Guide to Interface Design

The playbook for building software seams that bend with change, not break.

Evolving in Two Dimensions: Interface Strategies for Real‑World Software(Expression Problem, Part…

Patterns that survive both behaviour and variant volatility

Stop the Cascade: How to Design Interfaces That Survive Change

The Expression Problem: A Design Dilemma

The Age of Transformers

Transformers, Attention and Self Attention

How To Be an Effective Leader

I must confess I have met very few effective leaders in over two decades in the software industry. I use the term effective purposely; not…

Multitenant Architecture — Tenant Modeling

I've had a few interesting conversations with folks regarding multitenant systems over the past few weeks. Those conversations prompted me…

REST And HTTP Status Codes

I’ve seen a fair bit of confusion regarding understanding and using correct HTTP status codes when using REST. This post will go over some…

TCP/IP Distilled

The TCP/IP model is the ubiquitous standard in computer networks. It came out as a set of protocols developed at DARPA(Defence Advanced…

Multicast and the Gossip protocol

Gossip protocols solve a common problem in distributed systems called multicasting. So what is multicast, and why is it required? It is…

Streaming Algorithms — II — Counting Distinct Elements

Counting distinct elements is a problem that frequently arises in distributed systems. In general, the size of the set under consideration…

Data Streams — Models and Algorithms 1

Data streams have become ubiquitous in today's large distributed systems. These data streams could be network traffic or weblogs that need…

Why You Should Not Build an Internal Developer Platform

Most organizations in today’s day and age are investing heavily in application modernization. What that translates to is the move to…