3 posts tagged with "Architecture"

When I know the order a workflow must follow, I write that order down explicitly and let the model work inside one step at a time. The drawn route decides what runs next. It cannot prove that a draft is good, and a stored hash can tell me approved bytes changed but not whether the change helped.

Stripe's announcement for real-time Postgres sync gives two reasons fresh data matters: granting access to paid features and fulfilling an order. Both are actions, and the product, as announced, delivers rows. Before retiring a webhook integration, I would split it into the code that copies Stripe data and the code that acts on it, and delete only the copy code.

Passkey credentials should not double as data-encryption keys. The design looks elegant in review, and then a user switches phones and their data stays behind with the old device. The passkeys critique made this failure mode hard to ignore, so these are the guardrails I would enforce in any architecture review before that design reaches production.