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Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb © 2024 Ben Morris Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/why-ai-wont-kill-saas-and-how-it-will-save-it/ Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/why-ai-wont-kill-saas-and-how-it-will-save-it/ Far from being a ‘SaaS killer’, AI has the potential to breathe new life into established SaaS platforms and transform the way users engage with them. https://www.ben-morris.com/are-we-using-ai-to-automate-the-wrong-things/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/are-we-using-ai-to-automate-the-wrong-things/ LLMs are great for automating technical tasks, though using them to generate content may undermine authentic communication and knowledge sharing. https://www.ben-morris.com/design-trade-offs-for-conversational-agents/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/design-trade-offs-for-conversational-agents/ Agents are among the most IO bound applications you are likely to build, while conversational, ‘chat’-style interfaces bring extra constraints into play. https://www.ben-morris.com/implementing-complex-workflows-in-ai-agents/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/implementing-complex-workflows-in-ai-agents/ Although AI agents are capable of independent reasoning, their capricious nature can make it difficult to implement more detailed and rigorous workflow processes https://www.ben-morris.com/what-should-architects-focus-on/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/what-should-architects-focus-on/ ‘Architecture’ is such a wide term that it can be difficult to nail down exactly what architects should focus on… https://www.ben-morris.com/versioning-doesnt-make-it-any-easier-to-manage-change-in-apis/ Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/versioning-doesnt-make-it-any-easier-to-manage-change-in-apis/ Change in your API contracts is inevitable, but trying to manage this change through versioning usually creates more problems than it solves. https://www.ben-morris.com/enterprise-architecture-anti-patterns/ Sun, 14 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/enterprise-architecture-anti-patterns/ Every organisation tends to organise technology decision making differently, but some of the problems associated with architecture can be remarkably consistent… https://www.ben-morris.com/how-to-make-architecture-decisions/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/how-to-make-architecture-decisions/ Knowing what decisions to make and when to make them can be something of a fine art https://www.ben-morris.com/why-building-ai-powered-agents-is-so-challenging-for-now/ Sat, 03 Feb 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/why-building-ai-powered-agents-is-so-challenging-for-now/ Despite growing excitement about the potential for AI-driven agents, there are a lot of problems to solve before we can build agent-based architectures on any scale… https://www.ben-morris.com/architecture-governance-is-a-spectrum-exploring-styles-of-enterprise-architecture/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/architecture-governance-is-a-spectrum-exploring-styles-of-enterprise-architecture/ There is a spectrum of different styles of architecture governance, from the tightly structured and framework-driven, through to the deliberate absence of formal architecture. https://www.ben-morris.com/generative-ai-does-not-mean-the-end-of-programming/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/generative-ai-does-not-mean-the-end-of-programming/ The demise of software engineers is one of those tired old tropes that refuses to die. Perhaps the programming revolution has already happened…? https://www.ben-morris.com/minimal-viable-architecture-the-case-for-up-front-design/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/minimal-viable-architecture-the-case-for-up-front-design/ Evolutionary design and iterative development only get you so far - you still need some level of up-front thinking and forward planning. https://www.ben-morris.com/establishing-a-new-architecture-practice-in-agile-organisations/ Sat, 02 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/establishing-a-new-architecture-practice-in-agile-organisations/ How should you go about building an architecture practice in organisations where people are allowed to say “no”? Ultimately, this becomes an exercise in persuasion, pragmatism, and patience. https://www.ben-morris.com/the-shared-code-fallacy-why-internal-libraries-are-an-anti-pattern/ Sat, 15 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/the-shared-code-fallacy-why-internal-libraries-are-an-anti-pattern/ Most internal shared libraries are based on the fallacy that code sharing always makes development more efficient. https://www.ben-morris.com/monoliths-and-the-microservices-backlash/ Mon, 22 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/monoliths-and-the-microservices-backlash/ We need a more nuanced understanding of how to get the best out of monoliths, microservices, and serverless architectures. https://www.ben-morris.com/internal-developer-platforms-and-the-cult-of-kubernetes/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/internal-developer-platforms-and-the-cult-of-kubernetes/ We all agree that engineering enablement is important, but “platform teams” can often be a fig leaf for organisational anti-patterns and overly complex Kubernetes implementations. https://www.ben-morris.com/how-can-architecture-improve-agility-and-delivery-flow/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/how-can-architecture-improve-agility-and-delivery-flow/ Agile practices on their own are no guarantee of fast flow. You also need a planned architecture that enables team autonomy and supports rapid, iterative delivery. https://www.ben-morris.com/when-to-use-serverless-architecture-and-when-not-to/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/when-to-use-serverless-architecture-and-when-not-to/ The potential benefits of an architecture based on serverless functions are nuanced, making it a good fit only for some very specific use cases. https://www.ben-morris.com/ai-and-the-hype-cycle-oversold-overlooked-then-eventually-indispensable/ Sat, 10 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/ai-and-the-hype-cycle-oversold-overlooked-then-eventually-indispensable/ When any technology emerges, it can be challenging to chart a course between the unhelpful hype and the disappointment that is bound to follow… https://www.ben-morris.com/can-internal-developer-platforms-really-be-optional/ Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.ben-morris.com/can-internal-developer-platforms-really-be-optional/ Internal developer platforms are supposed to be so compelling that engineering teams will flock to them, but are we givng teams any real choice?