The Missing Middle: Systems as Languages

In &ldquo;Building Bridges,&rdquo; I describe a philosophy of software architecture based on the idea of systems that span theory (the &ldquo;left bank&rdquo; of the river) and computational reality (the &ldquo;right bank&rdquo; of the river). In this philosophy, the business value that we deliver is primarily in the &ldquo;middle of the river,&rdquo; so to speak. If theory governs one bank and…