Architecture, infrastructure cost, and what four decades of building systems keeps teaching me about the difference between working and being affordable.
The signature pitch of this era is not a philosophy but an offer. Measured productivity keeps rising, engagement keeps falling — one one-sentence test cuts through all of it.
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.