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A whiteboard in an open-plan office covered in a hand-drawn architecture diagram, a legacy system boxed off on the left and the current state sprawling to the right through an API gateway, microservices, a decision process and a feedback loop, with a laptop and notebook on the table in front of it and developers at their monitors behind.

I've Been Doing This for Years, Why Does It Feel Like Starting Over?

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I started a new role as a Director of Engineering focused on system architecture, and a week in I feel like a beginner again. Here is what I'm learning about resisting the urge to act, leading across teams I don't manage, and why the decisions behind an architecture matter more than the architecture itself.

  • Architecture
  • Engineering Leadership
  • Influence
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