100 Lessons Every Solution Architect Should Learn
A career's worth of hard-won lessons on how great architects actually think, decide and lead. ~220 pages, illustrated.
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Technology changes. Judgement endures.
Architecture was never about the technology. Essays and books on the part of the job that doesn't go out of date — how great architects actually think, decide and lead.
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Why No One Agrees What an Architect Is
Every solution architecture job advert describes the tools and forgets the purpose. That gap is why the role has never had a clear definition.
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An API Is a Promise Before It's an Interface
A public API looks like a technical decision — endpoints, verbs, response shape. Read it that way and you'll miss the actual architecture, which is a promise made to people who trusted you enough to build on it.
The Metric Was the Design
A ranking algorithm doesn't discover what matters to a user. It maximises whatever metric someone handed it — and that gap is the entire architecture.
Architecture Is Not a Technology Profession
For years the honest answer to "what is a solution architect" was a technical one. Here is the manifesto that replaced it, and what it quietly explains.
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Reference Architectures
Three classic design problems across Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, each ending in a design-review simulator.
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The New Architect: A Manifesto
A short, sharp manifesto: architecture was never about the technology. The entry point to the series.
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