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Deep dives on building software systems that stay modular, reliable and modernizable.

July 28, 20263 min read

The Strangler Fig: Modernizing Legacy Without the Big-Bang Rewrite

Why incremental replacement beats the rewrite, and how to route traffic through a facade while you carve a monolith into modular services.

June 15, 20262 min read

Modularity isn't about file counts or service boundaries — it's about how much you must know, and change, to make a change. A practical model.