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Long-form pieces on ADL, the Kalos runtime, and where software specification is heading, including an ongoing series placing ADL against the specification technologies that came before it.
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Watch architectural deep dives, implementation overviews, and live walkthroughs of ADL specifications in action.
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Listen to discussions on Kalos runtime design, eliminating AI liability, and engineering structural compliance.
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Description vs Execution
A frame for placing ADL against the specification technologies that came before it: description versus execution, one comparison at a time.
- Part 1 The Spec That Runs
- Part 2 ADL vs OpenAPI The Contract and the Counterparty
- Part 3 ADL vs SQL The Spec That Runs — One Layer Down
- Part 4 ADL vs GraphQL The Read Side and the Hard Side
- Part 5 ADL vs JSON Schema Well-Formed Is Not the Same as Legal
- Part 6 ADL vs BPMN & DMN Orchestrating Systems vs. Being One
- Part 7 ADL vs UML The Failure That Taught Us Everything
- Part 8 ADL vs EXPRESS/STEP The Ancestor That Never Got a Server
- Part 9 ADL vs json-server json-server Was Right, and Nobody Followed the Thought
- Part 10 ADL vs Supabase Supabase Already Proved Interpretation Works in Production
- Part 11 ADL vs JHipster JHipster Agrees With Us Right Up to the Moment It Generates
- Part 12 What ADL Can't Express
- Part 13 ADL vs Strapi Strapi Interprets Its Schema Too — Until the Content Needs Behavior
- Part 14 ADL vs SaaS Headless CMS Contentful and Storyblok Interpret a Declaration You Don't Hold
- Part 15 ADL vs WordPress WordPress Met the Demand for Declaration with an Economy of Code
- Part 16 ADL vs Salesforce Salesforce Proved the Declared Application at Civilization Scale
- Part 17 C at the Door The Plugin Boundary That Lets One Runtime Reach From the Server to the Edge
- Part 18 What Should the Agents Write? AI Lowered the Cost of Writing Code, Not of Owning It