Stop Confusing Metrics with Quality

me@hatemzidi.com (Hatem ZIDI) — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Quality is subjective.
Architecture is judgemental.
So how on earth do we measure it?

Every architecture review, every design workshop, every committee meeting eventually hits the same wall. Someone asks: “But is this actually good?”

We pretend the answer lives in metrics. Response times. Availability. Coupling scores. Maturity models. Dashboards filled with comforting colours. We convince ourselves that if the numbers are green, the architecture is good.

That is the uncomfortable reality: half the time, those numbers are illusions. They tell part of the story.

I’ve witnessed perfectly green dashboards collapse the moment real business pressure appeared.

Technical-Debt on Hatem Zidi

Stop Confusing Metrics with Quality