https://williamresearch.com/tags/technical-debt/Recent content in Technical Debt on Research LogsHugoen-USMon, 31 Aug 2026 23:11:12 +0700https://williamresearch.com/posts/architecture-dna-compass/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:11:12 +0700https://williamresearch.com/posts/architecture-dna-compass/<h2 id="1-the-hook-an-architecture-is-not-a-product-label">1. The Hook: an architecture is not a product label</h2> <p>Ask a team what architecture it runs and the answer often sounds like a technology catalog: microservices, event-driven, CQRS, Kubernetes, perhaps hexagonal architecture for good measure. The labels may all be true—and still explain surprisingly little.</p> <p>A real system can be a modular monolith at the deployment boundary, hexagonal inside selected modules, event-driven across domains, and CQRS only where read and write pressures diverge. These terms do not compete on one axis. They describe different forces.</p>