Topic: #Advent-of-code

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I Killed the AoC Architecture Resilience Project on Day 4 (And Why It Was Good Governance)

12/8/2025

The ultimate resilience strategy? Knowing when to stop. This AoC retrospective explores TDD as governance, strategic prioritization, and true architectural discipline.

Architecture & Resilience: AoC 2025 - Day 4: Printing Department

12/4/2025

Day 4 required solving an iterative spatial problem. I used spatial indexing for efficient neighbor counting and a BFS simulation to model the cascading removal of paper rolls.

Architecture & Resilience: Advent of Code 2025 Day 3 – Maximizing Battery Joltage

12/3/2025

The Day 3 challenge demanded maximizing a 12-digit sequence, testing our system's architectural resilience. See the journey from flawed assumptions to implementing the optimized stack, ensuring robustness against extreme scale via BigInt.

Discipline of Resilience: AoC Day 2 - Stress-Testing TDD and Resilience Architecture

12/2/2025

A Principal Architect's breakdown of AoC Day 2. See how TDD and architectural discipline hold up under new requirements, and the limits of AI in generating governed tests.

Discipline of Resilience: Enterprise Architecture in AoC Day 1

12/1/2025

Architects don't just solve problems; we prevent them. See why applying enterprise-grade TDD and strategic overkill to Advent of Code is the only way to build resilience. Day 1.