Software Architecture
When technical decisions start carrying long-term consequences.What it covers
- Architectural trade-offs and decision-making under uncertainty
- Designing systems that survive growth, change, and organizational pressure
- Understanding and managing technical debt at scale
- Real-world failures, postmortems, and systemic breakdowns
- The interaction between architecture, teams, and business constraints
Why it matters
- Architectural mistakes are often invisible at first but extremely costly later
- Early decisions shape system limits long before problems appear
- Scaling exposes weaknesses that clean designs can't hide
- Few engineers are trained to think in long-term system consequences
- Strong architectural thinking reduces risk, cost, and future rewrites