Secure Boot was designed to solve one of the most fundamental security problems in computing: how to ensure that only trusted software starts your machine. But like any architectural decision, it came with its own trade-offs, and its own technical debt. In this episode of Technical Debt: Design, Risk and Beyond, Maxim Silaev and Nikita Golovko explore Secure Boot as a case study in how solving one kind of debt often creates another. Maxim explains how the pre-Secure Boot world fragmented BIOS...
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Secure Boot was designed to solve one of the most fundamental security problems in computing: how to ensure that only trusted software starts your machine. But like any architectural decision, it came with its own trade-offs, and its own technical debt. In this episode of Technical Debt: Design, Risk and Beyond, Maxim Silaev and Nikita Golovko explore Secure Boot as a case study in how solving one kind of debt often creates another. Maxim explains how the pre-Secure Boot world fragmented BIOS...
How product strategy silently shapes your architecture, and what architects can do about it
Technical Debt: Design, risk and beyond
34 minutes
3 months ago
How product strategy silently shapes your architecture, and what architects can do about it
In this episode, we explore how product strategy - even when not explicitly technical - has a profound and in most times invisible impact on software architecture. From market segmentation to feature prioritisation, many product decisions quietly affect long-term architectural consequences. We unpack how phrases like "just support one more use case" or "we might add multi-tenancy later" seem innocent, but translate directly into complexity, coupling, and irreversible system shape. When archit...
Technical Debt: Design, risk and beyond
Secure Boot was designed to solve one of the most fundamental security problems in computing: how to ensure that only trusted software starts your machine. But like any architectural decision, it came with its own trade-offs, and its own technical debt. In this episode of Technical Debt: Design, Risk and Beyond, Maxim Silaev and Nikita Golovko explore Secure Boot as a case study in how solving one kind of debt often creates another. Maxim explains how the pre-Secure Boot world fragmented BIOS...
