Architecture
When Simplicity Is a Technical Strategy
The best technical solutions are not necessarily the ones with the most features, but the ones that make the important things easier to understand and operate.
Insights
Technology changes quickly. Good technical judgement tends to last a little longer.
These are ideas, observations and practical perspectives from Fern ICT on the decisions that sit behind technology: what to adopt, what to question, what to simplify and what to leave alone.
Some articles explore particular technologies. Others are about the less obvious things that determine whether a technology project succeeds: assumptions, complexity, resilience, architecture and the way people actually use the systems they build.
Latest Articles
Technical Strategy
Adding Read Aloud Without Adding Architectural Complexity
Adding Read Aloud to the Fern ICT website was treated as an architectural decision rather than simply a user-interface enhancement. The result was a browser-native capability that adds useful functionality without adding unnecessary services, dependencies or runtime complexity.
Technical Strategy
What Does a Technical Architecture Review Actually Tell You?
A good technical architecture review examines the decisions, dependencies, risks and assumptions embedded in an organisation's technology. More importantly, it provides the independent technical judgement needed to understand what should change, what can remain, and what happens if nothing changes.
Technical Strategy
Building the Fern ICT Website: A Small Website, Deliberately Built
The Fern ICT website was deliberately built as a simple static system. This is the story of the architecture, the reasoning behind it, and how AI was used to accelerate exploration and implementation without replacing technical judgement.
Earlier Articles
