Tag: architecture
All the articles with the tag "architecture".
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Data Residency Is an Architecture Constraint, Not a Checkbox
A national regulator's residency and sovereignty rules redrew the topology of a payments system. Where data lives, what can leave, and where the keys sit are architecture decisions, not a config flag you toggle at the end.
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Post-Merger Tech Integration: Ten Systems, Nine Months, Zero Downtime
Two large platforms merged, and now we owned two of everything. How we collapsed the overlap into one stack without a single customer feeling it, and why the politics were harder than the code.
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The Lakehouse Won. Here's the Migration Nobody Warns You About.
Moving a multi-petabyte warehouse to an open table format over object storage. The format is a weekend. The operations are the project, and nobody puts that in the deck.
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Five Hundred Engineers, Four Countries, and Conway's Law
Across four countries and a few hundred engineers, the system came to look exactly like the org chart. After years of fighting that, I started using it on purpose.