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Failure Modes Are Features, Not Exceptions
Defensive architecture starts by mapping everything that can fail. Most teams do this reactively. We do it at specification stage.
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CANONIX / JOURNAL
12 entries
System
Thinking.
Writing on AI architecture, structured intelligence, and the engineering of complex systems. No tutorials. No trend pieces.
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The Myth of the Minimal Viable Architecture
There is a belief, particularly among early-stage teams, that architecture can be deferred. That you first build something that works, and then you make it scale. This is not a strategy. It is an assumption — and one that carries compounding technical debt with every sprint.
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Latency Is Not a Metric. It Is a Product Decision.
When a team optimises for inference speed without a latency budget, they are optimising in the wrong direction. A constraint, not a target.
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Why Microservices Break at the Intelligence Layer
Standard microservice principles hold well for stateless compute. They do not hold for stateful inference contexts. Here is what changes when AI enters the stack.
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The Architecture Dossier: What We Ship Before We Build
Before any Canonix project enters development, we produce one document. This is what it contains — and why it eliminates the most expensive mistakes.
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Observability Is Not Logging. A Distinction That Matters.
Logs tell you what happened. Observability tells you why. The difference determines whether your team can respond to production incidents in minutes or hours.
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Context Windows Are an Architectural Constraint, Not a Feature
The context window of an LLM is not a capability — it is a boundary condition. How you design around it determines scalability at every layer above the model.
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Five Questions We Ask Before Writing a Line of Code
The most expensive bugs are caught at the specification stage. These are the questions that find them — before the build clock starts.
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