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systems

3 publications

  1. The Cost of Abstraction: When Layers Hide Security and Reliability Risks

    Argues that abstraction layers can obscure failure modes, shift risk across boundaries, and weaken assurance unless their assumptions are made explicit.

    5 min readSecurity

  2. What SICP Really Teaches About Abstraction—and Why It Still Matters

    Argues that SICP’s core lesson is the disciplined separation of meaning from mechanism, a prerequisite for reliable and scalable system design.

    5 min readFoundations

  3. Why Most Postmortems Miss the Real Failure Mode

    Postmortems often substitute proximate triggers for causal structure, obscuring system dynamics and latent conditions that drive failure.

    5 min readSoftware engineering