The Software Architecture Decisions That Are Aging Poorly in 2025
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Four architectural choices that made sense when they were made and are now generating technical debt at scale. Software architecture is a set of bets about the future — about what the system will need to do, at what scale, under what constraints, and with what team. Some of those bets age well. Others do not. The following four architectural decisions were each, in their time, defensible — often enthusiastically adopted as best practices. They are now generating significant operational cos