Writing

Two books, one thesis.

Most of what goes wrong in software lives in what nobody wrote down: decisions, assumptions, meaning. Both books are about making the implicit explicit, first in architecture, then in data.

Books

Apress · 2025

Mastering Software ArchitectureA Comprehensive New Model and Approach

A new model for architecture that treats people, business forces, and organizational reality as first-class constraints. It rebuilds the field’s canon from first principles instead of summarizing it.

Published: March 21, 2025
Author: Michael Carducci, with contributing author Daniel Tippie
ISBN: 979-8868804090

Springer →O’Reilly →Companion repo →

The Semantic Blueprint, concept cover art — Concept art

Packt · 2027 · in progress

The Semantic BlueprintBuilding an AI-Ready Semantic Layer with W3C Open StandardsWorking title

A hands-on guide to building an AI-ready semantic layer with JSON-LD, RDF, OWL, SPARQL, SHACL, and more, starting from data you already have. Why AI can’t use data whose meaning is implicit, and how to build the layer that fixes it, one system at a time, with standards that have been quietly solving this for thirty years.

Early-access edition available soon

Video

DevRandom, with Kate.

Videos about technology, its history, and the humans inside it, made with Kate Carducci, who directs, edits, lights, and wrangles the magician. Some ideas are too important, or too interesting, to leave in conference rooms.

EPISODE · JUDGMENTWhen science fiction becomes science fact

The near-misses behind WarGames, and why we need better humans in the loop

DevRandom · 17 min

EPISODE · HISTORYThe most important technologist you’ve never heard of

Douglas Engelbart, the Mother of All Demos, and what happens when the world isn’t ready

DevRandom · 23 min

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