Architecture
8 items tagged Architecture.
Articles
Cross-Platform Was a Labor-Saving Device. Shopify Just Stopped Needing One.
Shopify spent six years as React Native's loudest enterprise champion. It is now rebuilding every mobile app in Swift and Kotlin, and the stated reason is not performance. It is that writing the feature twice stopped costing twice.
Rust Is Now Tier-1 at Microsoft. The Interesting Part Is the Backend.
Rust joins C++, C# and TypeScript as a tier-1 language at Microsoft. The announcement contains no memory-safety statistics at all, which is a surprise, and the actual technical news is a Rust frontend bolted onto the MSVC backend with 100+ internal repos already building on it.
RAG or Fine-Tuning: Which One Do You Actually Need?
Almost always RAG. Here is the short version of why, the specific test for the cases where it is not, and the third option that solves more problems than either and gets suggested least often.
The Network Used to Move Packets. Now It Moves Decisions.
Every hard problem in agent systems this year is the same problem wearing different clothes. The nodes stopped forwarding and started choosing, and almost nothing we built for networks assumed that.
Data Flow
How data moves through the system, end to end.
Where We Are Now
A checkpoint - the architecture as it stands so far.
Diagrams
- AI Orchestration Control Plane
- Azure Stack for a Small Team