// THINKING Mar 28, 2026 7 min read ● platform / philosophy
Architecture is a stream, not a snapshot.
Why we re-index on every commit instead of every quarter, and what that changes about how teams reason about ownership, drift, and decay.
Why we re-index on every commit instead of every quarter, and what that changes about how teams reason about ownership, drift, and decay.
Snapshot thinking
Most architecture tools assume a snapshot. You generate a diagram. You file it. A quarter passes. The diagram is now fiction.
Stream thinking
If the architecture is a derivative of the code, and the code changes continuously, the architecture changes continuously. Treat it as a stream — re-index on every push, surface deltas — and ownership questions shift from "who drew this?" to "who introduced this edge?"