Dan Shaeffer — Systems Architecture & Engineering Leadership https://danielshaeffer.com/ Technical essays, systems architecture monographs, and software lifecycle mitigation by Dan Shaeffer in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX. en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Software Aging: Mitigating Architectural Entropy in Long-Lived Systems https://danielshaeffer.com/software-aging.html https://danielshaeffer.com/software-aging.html Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT An architectural examination of David Parnas's classical software aging principles and how runtime isolation, dependency decoupling, and memory boundary defense prevent structural degradation in modern production platforms.