@molly_struve Around 3, but if they don't reply, you can send more again later after a few hours pause. You can do a few rounds of this. If there is still no reply, threaten that you'll schedule a meeting to discuss.
Unpopular opinion: Most software architecture advice sucks because everyone just talks about the architectures in their most successful projects and coolest companies. It is all survivor bias, hindsight bias and cherrypicked results.
I've been coding professionally for 26 years and I'm taking a basic OOP class in college in Java.
While doing the unit on recursion I realized that not once in 26 years have I used recursion in production code.
What does that mean?