The Systems desk
Systems
How software is actually built, and what it costs the people who maintain it.
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Systems articles
The quiet return of the monolith
Nobody announced it. Teams simply started merging services back together and hoping their old conference talks would age gracefully.
What we lost when we stopped writing CSS
A generation of engineers can ship a design system and cannot centre a div. That is not a skills problem. It is a tooling decision that hardened into a worldview.