Essays

Editorial

Shareable takes. Opinionated history, not encyclopedia paste.

• Framework fatigue is the product

  Vendors need releases; your app needs stability. That misalignment is not a bug — it is the business model.

• Why SQL kept winning

  Every NoSQL wave rediscovered constraints under a new name. The relational model was never the bottleneck — wrong data was.

• The microservices invoice

  Independent deployability is real — and so is the distributed systems tax most mid-market shops were never sized to pay.

• Admired languages do not ship roadmaps

  Developers fall in love with expressiveness; enterprises hire for maintainers. Those are different optimization functions.

• AI bias against niche stacks

  LLMs train on the median repo. Your COBOL, your odd DSL, and your 2008 internal framework are underrepresented — and over-hallucinated.

• Same fad, new logo

  SOA, microservices, serverless, and "AI-native architecture" are often the same organizational dodge with fresher swag.