Architecture & Decisions | Seevali Rathnayake

The best architectural decisions happen away from the keyboard. The discipline is having a system that captures them before they fade.

WRITE Mar 21, 2026

architecture

Why I Used Git Submodules Inside an Nx Monorepo (And Why It Was the Right Call)

The textbook answer was a full monorepo merge. The right answer for 160+ .NET projects, three CI pipelines, and a team of 20 was something else entirely.

THOUGHT Mar 10, 2026

Don't claim expertise — point to systems you've built. The best way to establish architectural credibility is to let the work speak.

THOUGHT Mar 1, 2026

Legacy modernisation isn't a technical project — it's a risk management operation. Every step reversible. Every new service proves itself in production before the old path is deprecated.

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THOUGHT Jan 7, 2026

Architecture is constraint management, not technology selection. The question is never 'what is best?' — it's 'what is possible given our constraints?'