Architecture, infrastructure cost, and what four decades of building systems keeps teaching me about the difference between working and being affordable.
Two Lambdas at 7MB each became 250KB after one review. None of it failed a test — which is exactly why nobody fixes it.
A portal built between 1996 and 2000, on a content management system written from scratch because there was nothing to use.
A benchmark is a statement about where you think the frontier is. Choosing one is an architecture decision about cost.
Six shifts reshaping the market — and why AI is becoming national infrastructure rather than a software product.