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Architecture Consistency

Posted on 2015-08-28 by Michael Schneider

Always keep your architecture design consistent, i.e. use the same solution for the same problem. If not, your architecture becomes unnecessarily complicated, which can lead to problems, sometimes even catastrophic ones. Here are two examples for such problems:

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Nothing Is Permanent Except Change

Posted on 2015-04-09 by Michael Schneider

Architects have the problem that they need to constantly deal with change. Change happens. That’s a fact. πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei) as the Greek philosopher Heraklitus supposedly said. So you’ll have to deal with it. How? Well, Michael Stal provided … Continue reading →

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What is architecture?

Posted on 2015-04-03 by Michael Schneider

So, what is the definition of software architecture? Well, there are multiple definitions out there. Some of them useful, some of them not. But in my mind the most accurate one is from Grady Booch: All architecture is design but … Continue reading →

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