Tagged architecture

3 posts about architecture.

03 Aug

12 min

Snapshot-first: why your restore tool should never trust the live environment

A design constraint for disaster recovery tooling — resolve every restore against a configuration snapshot captured before the incident, never against a live query — and what falls out of it: pure-function planning, fully offline tests, and drills cheap enough to run continuously

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03 Aug

12 min

Teaching an AI reviewer to review a design document, not code

What happened when I pointed a shared AI merge-request reviewer at an architecture repository containing no code — separating the mechanical gates from the judgement checks, forbidding fabrication, and the style rule that would have broken the build

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28 Apr

3 min

Rules engines on the JVM in 2026

Drools is no longer the only game in town. A look at Easy Rules, RuleBook, and when you should reach for a rules engine at all.

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