Thoughts of a Curious Software Engineer

For years, we repeated the same two words: “Architecture matters.” In the AI era, that sentence becomes less a belief and more a constraint. Not because LLMs are magical, but because they change the economics of building software in a way that exposes every weakness we used to tolerate. [Read More]

It has been more than two years since my last post, and a year since my book was published. I never wrote here about the process, but with some distance and time to reflect, I feel it’s the right moment to share the story. [Read More]

Recently, several friends directed my attention to an intriguing article detailing Amazon Prime’s transition from a microservices architecture back to a monolith. It seems like this change of paradigm has triggered a lot of debates in the network, so I decided to share my thoughts on the topic. [Read More]

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After my post std::shared_ptr is an anti-pattern I was thinking about an example of justified usage of std::shared_ptr. I have mentioned that it can be used to implement caching, and in this post, I am going to use it for implementing reloadable config. [Read More]