Architecture discussions often get lost in abstraction — whiteboard sketches that never survive contact with reality, dense documentation that gathers digital dust, and theoretical purity that crumbles under the pressure of practical application. After years of building and rebuilding systems across different scales and industries, I’ve learned that the most successful architectures share one crucial trait: they’re designed like products, not monuments.
My path to this realization started in research. I earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and…
