Architecture Control Boundaries

Ordered notes and essays grouped as a connected series.

Secure Platform Integration Is Not Plumbing

Part 1 / April 24, 2026Integration layers are where identity, data quality, workflow semantics, and recovery become explicit. Treating them as plumbing is how modernization programs lose control.

AI Pipelines Need Control Boundaries

Part 2 / April 24, 2026Enterprise AI becomes safer and more useful when normalization, authorization, validation, and write-back controls are explicit around it.

Software Layers Are Risk Boundaries

Part 3 / April 24, 2026Layering is how mobile, integration, and AI-enabled systems stay governable when vendors, channels, and runtime concerns change around them.