#softwaredesign

How immutability, explicit data, pattern matching, and result values change software...

Spring Boot's Quiet Hook for Shipping Configuration: EnvironmentPostProcessor Hi everyone!...

Part 3 of the Grimoire API series. Part 1 built a validated read-only endpoint, Part 2 added...

Imagine you have a domain operation that answers a very common question: “What would happen if we...

When building applications that orchestrate content across multiple social platforms like TikTok,...

It works. You typed a paragraph and something appeared that does the thing. Twenty minutes. The...

You build a field for a phone number. Someone puts an address in it. You build an internal tool for...

The monolith-versus-microservices debate often feels less like engineering and more like a religious...

I spend my day job on cloud platform work — pipelines, idempotent state machines, the usual...

Every week there's a new post about "adding AI to your API" — a chat endpoint, a summarization...

Three boxes. That's what our C4 container diagram showed for the EPCIS batch upload flow in ALSC....

Agent-generated codebases pass every structural-modularity metric while fragmenting the domain concept the team was trying to encode. Coverage measured whether a line ran. Mutation score measured whether an assertion pinned behavior. Cohesion is the next axis, and it measures whether the codebase's concepts are traversable end-to-end.