Domain boundaries are team boundaries

Leads managing leads mostly changed the bill, not the outcome. A shared channel with nobody looking after it lost about 4 of 11 every run.

Oct 13 • Thiago de Faria

Nobody collided until the platform was the only way

Handoffs need a check where the mistake is born, and merges need an owner who speaks for the services that aren't in the room.

Oct 6 • Thiago de Faria

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September 2026

Conway's law has a new employee

Pick the pattern by who owns the split, not by the shape of the diagram

Sep 29 • Thiago de Faria

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Nobody owns the policy

And that is the design, once you split it in four.

Sep 22 • Thiago de Faria

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Prove it before it runs

Your review queue is a placement problem.

Sep 15 • Thiago de Faria

There were software factories before the robots came

Why your best people will quit a job that stopped asking them to think

Sep 8 • Thiago de Faria

Who reviews the reviewers?

You kept the gate. Now who is holding it up, and for how long?

Sep 1 • Thiago de Faria

August 2026

The sandbox is not holding

Theirs leaked. Yours doesn't exist.

Aug 25 • Thiago de Faria

Teach one repo, move a fleet

Teach the AI one repo's migration, validate the lesson, run it across the fleet. What it costs, what it returns, where it goes wrong.

Aug 18 • Thiago de Faria

More shipped, same typing

A study followed 3 agile teams for 13 months after GenAI arrived. Throughput rose 59%, the activity graph stayed flat and the bottleneck moved exactly…

Aug 11 • Thiago de Faria

Your bottleneck doesn't burn tokens

AI usage mandates put a jetpack on the one step of delivery that was already fast. Goldratt named the mistake in 1984, and the token dashboard is now…

Aug 4 • Thiago de Faria

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July 2026

In the loop. Not in the room

A model in your delivery pipeline is two things at once, a build lever and an architectural mirror. But what share of its work you ship without redoing…

Jul 28 • Thiago de Faria