Essays from an enterprise architect on solution design, covering how research has changed with the web and AI, and why AI should be treated as a business tool rather than a strategy of its own. Also explores the trade-off between centralized platforms and bespoke micro-apps.
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A sporadic technical blog on governing AI agents, covering gateway-based enforcement, MCP tool-call governance and audit trails, drawing on real failures and a demo built around the RNLI. Readers get first-person engineering lessons on where controls belong and why true status reports can still hide broken systems.
Decision Crafters publishes architecture analysis for leaders deciding on AI and platform systems, with a focus on separating state, capability, authority, execution and evidence. Each issue offers named frameworks, such as a control plane model, a four-part claim labelling method and an eight-dimension review checklist, for judging whether an agentic system is safe to trust in production.
Brad Curtis writes about enterprise technology, software architecture and engineering, with explanations of architecture roles and commentary on current events such as the CrowdStrike outage and enterprise use of AI agents. Readers get practitioner-oriented analysis that avoids jargon and poses practical questions for customers and vendors.
Telos Review is a journal of essays by Edward Miranda linking geopolitics, energy markets, debt, strategy and enterprise architecture. Readers get long-form analysis of how systems draw down accumulated capacity, plus reflections on strategy and semantic consistency.
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