"The city must not be confused with the words that describe it. And yet, between the one and the other, there is a connection."
In the practice of enterprise architecture, we often fall into the trap of believing our diagrams are the reality of the system.
How the aesthetic of honest materials in 20th-century architecture informs the way we should...
We spend our careers optimizing for efficiency, stripping away the 'bloat' from our data pipelines. Yet, a return to Shannon's 1948 treatise reveals that redundancy is not waste.
There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a distributed system during a network partition—the same silence described in accounts of the Roman Senate during constitutional crisis.
Comparing the binary nature of looms with the structural integrity of clean code and the...
Examining the recursive nature of biological systems and how they mirror the early architectural...
A curated dispatch of systems-thinking, archival notes, and reading recommendations for the unhurried architect.