Architecture

The Register reported that UK entry-level tech roles fell 46 percent in 2024, with projections hitting 53 percent by the end of 2026, based on figures from the Institute of Student Employers. Most of the commentary points at AI as the cause, and AI is doing something, but the ladder into architecture has been eroding for over a decade and the AI piece is just the wave you can see right now. The earlier waves were quieter and they did most of the damage well before agents showed up. ...

I’m recertifying my AWS Solutions Architect Professional cert for the second time right now, so when I decided to build a personal site the temptation to go straight to Route53, CloudFront, S3, and Terraform was real. I asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini what they thought before starting, and while they disagreed on a few things they all said to use GitHub Pages and not overthink the hosting. Gemini included a cost comparison that had an EKS cluster as one of the options at £150-200/month, which is overkill for basically any website, but it helped make the point that GitHub Pages with a custom domain was the obvious starting point. I could have spent weeks on infrastructure before writing a single post, or I could just start writing. ...