Why Plugin APIs Fail at Malleable Software: Sandboxing vs. Readability
Plugin APIs are the default answer to extensibility: publish extension points, sandbox what people build, and let them get on with it. The approach protects ...
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Software Architecture
7 published knowledge pages on Software Architecture.
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Software Architecture Three Rules for a Kernel Grammar and What Each Costs
A kernel grammar is the published middle layer of a malleable product. It is a fixed list of words naming the kernel's primitives, plus rules for combining t...
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Software Architecture Kernel Grammar: The Three-Layer Architecture for Malleable Software
A kernel grammar is the middle layer that keeps malleable software changeable after customers have built on it. AI made generating features cheap. It did not...
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Software Architecture Feedback Loop Speed as Technology Selection Pressure
The technology layer with the shortest gap between having an intention and seeing a result is the one people end up living in. This is not a design principle...
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Software Architecture The Shipping Container Pattern: How Standardized Connections Unlock Composition
Across unrelated industries, the same coordination failure repeats. Proprietary systems fragment a market. Pain compounds. Then someone standardizes the conn...
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Software Architecture Why SaaS Platforms Bundle: The Missing Standards Problem
The standard explanation for SaaS platform growth is network effects and switching costs. The simpler truth is that composing specialized tools into a workin...
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Software Architecture AI and Architectural Technical Debt: Why Structural Mistakes Compound
The Structural Mistakes AI MakesAI coding tools excel at producing syntactically correct, well-formatted code that solves the immediate problem. The danger i...