Steven Stuart

Software architect with 15 years of experience bringing clarity to complex systems, from web and desktop applications to microservices and event-driven systems serving millions of users.

Ave Maria, Florida Joined on Dec 22, 2025 stevenstuartm@gmail.com https://stevenstuartm.com

Steven Stuart

Feb 23

How One Screen Holds the Entire Industry Hostage

#mobile #webdev #website #frontend

10 min read

Steven Stuart

Feb 16

Observability Is Authored, Not Installed

#observability #devops #architecture #monitoring

5 min read

Steven Stuart

Feb 3

How Shared Libraries Become Shared Shackles

#architecture #microservices #dotnet

11 min read

Steven Stuart

Jan 29

Making Invalid States Unrepresentable: The Billion-Dollar Mistake That Wasn't

#security #dotnet #csharp #designpatterns

11 min read

Steven Stuart

Jan 26

SEO Still Works, Just Not How We Hoped

#seo #marketing #socialmedia

5 min read

Steven Stuart

Jan 20

Why 'Tech Debt' Does Not Get Fixed

#leadership #techdebt #architecture

6 min read

Steven Stuart

Jan 12

Package Updates Are Investments, Not Hygiene Tasks

#leadership #softwaredevelopment #testing

8 min read

Steven Stuart

Jan 5

Adaptability Over Cleverness: What Makes Code Actually Good

#architecture #bestpractices #designpatterns

2 min read

Steven Stuart

Jan 2

TDD Tests Assumptions, Not Just Code

#tdd #unittest #testing

5 min read

Steven Stuart

Dec 31 '25

Rebuild Success Often Comes from Realignment, Not New Technology

#leadership #architecture #projectmanagement #softwaredevelopment

7 min read

Steven Stuart

Dec 30 '25

Why Configuration Files Don't Belong With Your Code

#aws #security #architecture

11 min read

Steven Stuart

Dec 29 '25

Avoid Forcing REST onto Domain-Driven Architectures

#architecture #rest #api #rpc

5 min read

Steven Stuart

Dec 27 '25

Auth Sessions Should Never Be Transient Across Boundaries

#architecture #api #security

5 min read

Steven Stuart

Dec 24 '25

Why I Changed My Mind About Exceptions

#csharp #architecture #cloud #distributedsystems

9 min read

Steven Stuart

Dec 23 '25

Monoliths for Discovery, Microservices for Optimization

#architecture #software #tradeoffs #microservices

2 min read

Steven Stuart

Dec 22 '25

What Engineering Leaders Ask That Others Don't

#leadership #career #software

4 min read

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How One Screen Holds the Entire Industry Hostage

Observability Is Authored, Not Installed

How Shared Libraries Become Shared Shackles

Making Invalid States Unrepresentable: The Billion-Dollar Mistake That Wasn't

SEO Still Works, Just Not How We Hoped

Why 'Tech Debt' Does Not Get Fixed

Package Updates Are Investments, Not Hygiene Tasks

Adaptability Over Cleverness: What Makes Code Actually Good

TDD Tests Assumptions, Not Just Code

Rebuild Success Often Comes from Realignment, Not New Technology

Why Configuration Files Don't Belong With Your Code

Avoid Forcing REST onto Domain-Driven Architectures

Auth Sessions Should Never Be Transient Across Boundaries

Why I Changed My Mind About Exceptions

Monoliths for Discovery, Microservices for Optimization

What Engineering Leaders Ask That Others Don't