Software Architecture

The evolving answer to 'how do we organize code at scale?' — structured programming to LLM orchestration.

16 posts· 1967 – 2013

• Docker: the container that shipped the machine 2013
• The machine that learned to break itself 2009
• Amazon's API mandate 2002
• Service-oriented architecture: three specifications and a decade of optimism 2001
• The spy at Snowbird 2001
• The dissertation that named the web 2000
• Enterprise JavaBeans and the era of the application server 1998
• Design Patterns: the catalog that gave software a common language 1994
• Three-tier architecture, or how the application server ate the fat client 1992
• Seven boxes in Washington 1984
• The machine at the end of the hallway 1975
• Structured programming: sequence, selection, iteration 1972
• What the flowchart hides 1972
• What the module doesn't tell you 1972
• The letter that killed the goto 1968
• Simula 67, or how a Norwegian harbor simulation gave software its objects 1967