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The Architect Elevator
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The Architect Elevator is a personal blog at architectelevator.com about programming and business. Since 2021, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Modern architects look beyond UML and design patterns to transform IT by connecting the strategy ‘penthouse’ with the technology ‘engine room’. They ride the Architect Elevator.
Most-linked posts?
- Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-20
- Debugging Architects2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-11
- Is AWS Lambda a Halo Product?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-22
- Architecture is a game of constraint satisfaction2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-20
- The Software Architect Elevator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-10
- I made everything loosely coupled. Will my cloud bill go up?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-27
- The Serverless Illusion2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-23
What Hacker News says?
If you're also interested in Software Architecture (at least the high-level), then I can also recommend https://architectelevator.com/book/ by Gregor Hohpe (who also wrote another long-time classic: Enterprise Integration Patterns). Another one I found very helpful is Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.
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on “Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?”Submitted The economics of writing technical books as a story · 296 points
HN discussionServerless has its place Several folks have written about it (Architect Elevator[0] is a good blog on these types of topics, as he routinely talks about tradeoffs and ROI to the business). High Scalability's[1] "what the internet says" posts frequently highlight serverless projects (both pro and con) _______________ [0] https://architectelevator.com/blog [1] most recent - http://highscalability.com/blog/2022/7/11/st…
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on “Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?”Submitted Making complex topics stick (Part 2: Composition) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBecause he has no scribe now - it’s real Sam. An architect drawn some chicken scratch on a napkin and others make it happen. Also, how is the prose in the Google emails from the trial? This is the Guggenheim, https://architectelevator.com/architecture/famous-architects...
Comment linking /architecture/famous-architects-sketch/
on “Sam Altman tweet after being fired”Submitted Architecture is a game of constraint satisfaction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOther commenters have covered the workload lock-in angle pretty well. Using Kubernetes as a target platform for your application already gives you a decent shot a workload portability. Keep in mind though that some K8s APIs are leaky abstractions. You pay with lock in into K8s of course. At the end of the day, lock-in is a matter of tradeoffs. An often overlooked angle is the "organizational lock-in" to the cloud. A…
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on “Ask HN: What are some examples of cloud lock-in?”Submitted Architect's Bookshelf as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthis is a good blog on Architecture in general - https://architectelevator.com/
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on “What are some educational resources for more senior engineers?”Submitted Concerned about Serverless Lock-In? Consider Patterns as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGregor Hohpes' blog: https://architectelevator.com/blog/
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on “Ask HN: Which big tech people keep blogs?”Submitted Naive Reuse Considered Harmful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architecture is a game of constraint satisfaction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is AWS Lambda a Halo Product? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Are Business Architects Always Grumpy? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Serverless Illusion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Serverless Illusion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why enterprise IT is so complex as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Application Architecture as Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I made everything loosely coupled. Will my cloud bill go up? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Software Architect Elevator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being an architect isn't the sum of skills. It's the product as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The digital grass isn't greener. It isn't grass as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Economics of Technical Speaking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mighty Metaphor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is AWS Lambda a Halo Product? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Classic Architecture Books as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every Constraint Is an Opportunity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions as a story · 1 points
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