Newsletter #2: When Layers Get in the Way
More layers don't make architecture cleaner. They make it harder to see what's actually happening.
Rico Fritzsche
Beyond Enterprise OOP: Building Clear, Composable Systems with PostgreSQL and Rust
PostgreSQL Guards the Facts, Rust Defines Intent, and Clarity Scales with the System
The Era of GIS is Over: Why Decision-Makers Must Move Beyond GIS
Why Geography Is Not a System to Manage — It Is the Living Structure of Data
How I Built a High-Performance Geocoding Engine from Scratch
A Practical Guide to Designing a Lightning-Fast Address-to-Location Engine in Rust
Road Networks Explained: Turning Geography into a Navigable Graph
How Graph Models and Routing Rules Shape Navigation, Logistics, and Urban Mobility
Beyond Static Models: Behavior-First Design for Changing Domains
Why Your ERD Is Not the Domain and How Events Make Systems Explainable
Beyond Aggregates: Correlation ≠ Shared State
What Years of DDD Taught Me About Letting Go
Event Stores and Tags: A Misunderstood Optimization
A Critique of Tagging in Event Stores
How to Enforce Consistency Without Aggregates in Event-Sourced Systems
A Practical Approach Using Context-Scoped Filters and SQL
Simplicity Wins: Command Context Consistency
How Self-Contained Features and Event Logs Replace Legacy Models