Notes from a conversation with Gregor Hohpe — author of The Software Architect Elevator and Enterprise Integration Patterns, former principal at AWS and Google. The bad architects are easy to spot. The great ones are invisible — everything just works, and nobody can say exactly why. Gregor Hohpe on what separates the two, and how […]
Read More →“Most people are using MCP wrong,” said MCP’s co-creator, David Soria Parra. I agree. Because I made the same mistake. Engineers would do the obvious thing: wrap each REST endpoint as an MCP tool and shove them into a custom registry. The result? Zero value over just calling the APIs directly. Worse than zero, honestly. […]
Read More →In the last eighteen months, the “how” of software engineering has undergone a seismic shift. We’ve entered the era of Vibe Coding—a world where the distance between a raw idea and a running production service is narrowed by a well-phrased prompt and an LLM that “gets the vibe.” But as we lean more on generative AI […]
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