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Software Architecture

The fundamental organization of a software system, including its components, relationships, and design principles.

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Clearing my evening thoughts with a personal VPS

How I stopped evening work anxiety by wiring up a private VPS, Matrix, and an Obsidian second brain into an always-on personal AI assistant.

AIAI AgentsSoftware Architecture

Roy Berris · 2026-09-26 · 7 min

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The Three-Layer System for Consistent AI Specifications

How we use a three-layer compiler pipeline to generate functional design specifications with AI, compiling business truth down to verifiable contracts.

AISoftware ArchitectureBest Practices

Roy Berris · 2026-09-26 · 12 min

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Designing APIs for AI Agents: Schemas, Security and MCP

AI agents now call our APIs, but few of us design for them. How I use schemas, consistent patterns, security and MCP ideas to serve developers and agents.

API DesignAI AgentsSoftware ArchitectureDesign Patterns

Roy Berris · 2025-10-21 · 10 min

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Standardizing API Conventions with ADRs

How one two-hour DevAlign session and a set of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) gave my team consistent API naming, versioning, errors and pagination.

APISoftware ArchitectureADRTeam Collaboration

Roy Berris · 2025-09-05 · 4 min

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Going Headless with MVC: Umbraco Community Day Talk

My Umbraco Community Day 2023 talk on headless and MVC: decoupling Umbraco from the presentation layer, with the source code of the working prototype.

UmbracoSoftware Architecture

Roy Berris · 2023-01-19 · 1 min