Senior architects: seniority is about tradeoffs and risk judgment, not collecting more tools
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-10-10
A tech blogger reflects on how his view of seniority changed: he once thought becoming a Solution Architect meant mastering more tools — AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform. Now he argues seniority is increasingly about knowing what to use, what not to use, what can fail, what it costs, and what happens at 10x scale. You become senior by making better decisions, not collecting tools.
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