Tag: architecture

2026-08-09 · 7 min read

Deconstructing the dogmatic anti-patterns section of the official Elixir library guidelines and demonstrating when every single one of them is actually needed.

elixir erlang architecture anti-patterns hacking

2026-06-14 · 14 min read

On the lonely `status` column that quietly metastasised into a state machine, the boolean flags breeding in its shadow, and why a real finite automaton is not academic finery but the cheapest insurance you will ever decline to buy

elixir finitomata fsm architecture opinion hacking

2023-12-26 · 5 min read

Part four of 'four key developer skills': what horizontal scaling actually means (and why Shopify is not an example of it), why FSMs are non-negotiable, and why 201 is good while 200 is dreadful.

elixir erlang programming architecture distributed-systems hacking

2023-12-25 · 5 min read

Part three of ‘four key developer skills’: why YAGNI is the laziness excuse of the decade, what the correct formulation actually is, and how dependency injection lets you be ready for tomorrow without writing a single superfluous line today.

elixir erlang programming architecture hacking

2023-11-09 · 3 min read

Part two of ‘four key developer skills’: how to break a system into isolated parts, why SRP is the only principle in SOLID worth knowing, and why anyone who says code can’t be tested in isolation should be shown the door.

elixir erlang programming architecture hacking