Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers SE Radio 705: Murat Erder and Eoin Woods on Continuous Architecture
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Jan 27, 2026 
Murat Erder, CTO and author focused on architecture and data integration; Eoin Woods, consultant and author specializing in software architecture and green engineering. They discuss Continuous Architecture: making architectural decisions continuously, empowering teams to own decisions, using feedback loops and metrics, balancing upfront design with flexibility, governance that enables teams, and AI’s emerging role in architecture.
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Software Mirrors Organization
- Organizational structure and software design inevitably converge and influence each other over time.
- Design teams intentionally to align boundaries and reduce emergent, costly coupling.
Catalogue Decisions And Schedule Them
- Maintain an explicit list of architectural decisions and decide when each must be made.
- Use that list to schedule decisions by risk and reversibility rather than guessing.
Use Technical Feedback Loops
- Implement feedback loops using pipeline artifacts and production metrics to evaluate architecture.
- Prefer technical and operational measures (errors, recovery time, resource use) to infer architectural health.
