Welcome
I’m Adrian Ashdown, a Solutions Architect with a background in software engineering and database administration, and over 25 years’ experience on the Microsoft stack.
This is where I write about what I’ve learned along the way, from designing and running business-critical platforms to the wider decisions that shape how technology serves a business.
Latest articles
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How I Use AI Day to Day
A practical tool in the workflow, with a human at every decision point
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Architecture Decisions Are Business Decisions
How to make them well, and why it’s worth writing them down
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Earlier Writing
Systems Thinking began on the blog of my consultancy, Ashdown Systems. The original articles are still available for reference.