Architectural mobility for stronger software

There’s a concept in sports science that’s easy to overlook because it sounds so basic: “mobility”. Mobility is defined as “the ability of a joint to move actively through its full, functional range of motion with control, stability, and strength“. If you look at a simplified “athlete performance” pyramid, the foundation isn’t power or strength; it’s mobility. Everything else builds on top of that, but we spend most of our time discussing the upper layers and very little attention is paid to wh