Among other things, I’m a systems architect, which means that my job is mostly coming up with broad plans, and taking the merit if they go well and otherwise blaming the developers if it they go wrong. More seriously, a part of my job is helping make abstract plans about systems, in such a way that they are understandable, leave room for developers to make decisions locally about what they mean, but while structuring things in such a way that the biggest minefields one might encounter when the rubber hits the road are taken care of. - Article - [HN]