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There's a recurring message on LinkedIn: Java 8 is legacy. Java 21 is enterprise-ready. Upgrade, or fall behind. Ask the same people directly whether a better language makes for a better product, and
Part 2 — Essential and Accidental Complexity Part 1's answer to that question was 'you can't' — and that still stands. No controlled counterfactual exists, and it isn't coming. What's fixable is narro
Part 1 — Problem Definition You can't. Not with any test you currently run. Every test in a standard suite answers one question: does the software do what it's supposed to do. None of them answer a se
Every experienced architect has had this happen. A domain expert asks for feature X. An hour of conversation later, it turns out they don't actually need X at all — they need something X happened to b
Every organisation that has run a significant software system for more than a few years has felt a version of the same thing: a change that should have taken days takes months, nobody can quite explai
Software architecture debates have a problem that most other engineering disciplines don't: the alternative was never built. When a bridge fails, the failure is physical, attributable, and measurable
