GigaTap articles tagged architecture.
- Chains and Multihop: What They Give You and What They Cost - A second hop solves specific problems and creates new ones. What a chain actually buys, why a fallback path is not failover, and the trace multihop leaves in traffic.
- Choosing a Transport Family: Vulnerability Profiles, Not a Ranking - Transports cannot be ranked by strength — their vulnerability profiles differ in kind, not in degree. Four families across five axes, and the rule of diverse failure modes.
- Config Delivery: How a Broken Subscription Locks a User Out - The worst state a service can reach is one where restoring access requires the access you do not have. The circular trap, domain migration, and channel independence.