https://blog.birdor.com/tags/philosophy/ Recent content in Philosophy on Birdor Blog Hugo en Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:30:00 +0800 https://blog.birdor.com/plumego-explicit-systems-philosophy/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:30:00 +0800 https://blog.birdor.com/plumego-explicit-systems-philosophy/ <h1 id="plumego-and-explicit-systems-an-engineering-philosophy">Plumego and Explicit Systems: An Engineering Philosophy</h1> <h2 id="introduction-this-is-not-a-feature-list">Introduction: This Is Not a Feature List</h2> <p>This article is not about APIs.</p> <p>It does not explain:</p> <ul> <li>How to register a route</li> <li>How to write middleware</li> <li>How to return JSON</li> </ul> <p>Those topics are covered elsewhere.</p> <p>This article exists to answer a deeper and more uncomfortable question:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Why do so many backend systems become fragile, opaque, and painful to maintain—despite using “modern” frameworks?</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Plumego is not an attempt to invent a better abstraction layer.<br> It is an attempt to step back and ask whether <strong>abstraction itself has been overused</strong> in backend engineering.</p>