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Rethinking Technical Debt

How smarter modularity can better manage debt

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Rethinking Technical Debt

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Conway’s Law Was Right — But How Can We Use It?

How the fusion of Domain-Driven Design and runtime-aware architecture turns Conway’s observation into a software map

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Conway’s Law Was Right — But How Can We Use It?

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The Magic of Message Moderation

How bindable components simplify distributed systems without sacrificing power or performance

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The Magic of Message Moderation

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Software Architecture for Developers

Why We Need Systems Thinking

Apr 3

Software Architecture for Developers

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Rethinking Software Architecture

All the Way from Static Layers to Composable Systems

Apr 15

Rethinking Software Architecture

Apr 15

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Pete Hegseth’s Deadly Tell

When arrogance replaces substance

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The World Is Too Dangerous for an Amateur President

Born into peace, Trump has no idea what it took to build it — or what it takes to keep it

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Trump Took Congress. Then the Court. Now He Wants the Fed.

The last independent institution is under threat. If Trump seizes the Fed, economic and political chaos will follow.

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Trump’s Felonies, Falsehoods, and Failing Memory: Why Believe Anything He Says?

Convicted of 34 felonies but shielded from sentencing by his election, Trump may now be losing some of his most loyal believers. The…

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The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump King-Like Powers. What Could Go Wrong?

With a quiet unsigned order, the Court let Trump dismantle a Cabinet agency without Congress. That sound you hear? It’s the Constitution…

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Dick Dowdell

Dick Dowdell

A former US Army officer with a wonderful wife and family, I’m a software architect and engineer, currently CTO and Chief Architect of a software startup.

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