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Reading the system before changing it

Why architecture work is mostly listening, and what that looks like in practice on a real codebase.

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Most architecture mistakes are paid for not in the design, but in the diagnostic that came before it. This essay walks through how I read a system on a first engagement, what I look at, what I deliberately ignore, and how I separate the stated problem from the actual one.

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