Tag: engineering leadership

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May 15, 2026 — 16 min — Systems Notes

Modular Monolith vs Microservices: A Decision Memo for Real Products

Why teams get stuck between tangled monoliths and premature microservices, and how to choose the next boundary with delivery metrics, ownership, and blast radius.

Outcome: Reader can write a decision memo that chooses modular monolith, service extraction, or boundary repair based on team ownership, delivery metrics, scaling pressure, and observable blast radius.

software architecture microservices modular monolith product engineering engineering leadership

Apr 25, 2026 — 12 min — Platform & AI

Every Engineer Is a Manager Now

AI coding agents are turning software work into management work: engineers now have to manage intent, context, agent output, teammate coordination, stakeholder evidence, and long-term maintenance.

Outcome: Defined a public operating model for engineers and consultants who need to coordinate human teammates and AI agents without producing artifacts that create hidden technical debt.

ai agents engineering leadership software process technical communication consulting

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