Tag: architecture

All the articles with the tag "architecture".

• Contract testing

  7 Aug, 2026

  Contract testing lets you decouple deploys by sharing a spec, not a code package — each side proves it honours the contract on its own, without the other running.

• Deployment coupling

  4 Aug, 2026

  You split into services so each could ship alone. Then a shared contracts package quietly stitched the deployments back together — that's deployment coupling.

• The last responsible moment

  3 Aug, 2026

  Deferring a decision isn't dodging it. The last responsible moment is the point past which waiting costs you an option — so decide then, not before, not after.

• The cost of premature abstraction

  31 Jul, 2026

  Taught that duplication is the enemy, we abstract too early. But the wrong abstraction costs more than the duplication it replaced — and is far harder to undo.