Category: Archetypes
Process Archetypes: The Roles in the Gnome Village - 2025-11-21
Every process has a job. Problems start when it has two.
Workers: Do One Job, Then Get Out of the Way - 2025-11-22
Short-lived processes, polite pools, and where people overcomplicate things
Resource Owners: One Process, One Piece of State - 2025-11-24
The boring, reliable center of most good systems
Routers: Processes That Only Decide Where Stuff Goes - 2025-11-26
The Gnome Village Mailmen
Gatekeepers: The Traffic Controllers of the Gnome Village - 2025-12-08
Processes that protect the system from the outside world, and from itself
Observers: The Watchful Gnomes of the Village - 2025-12-12
Processes that watch, restart, and enforce lifetimes
