Category: Architecture
All things about one of our strongest passions, coding architecture.
Imperative Programming in Depth
Programming languages come in all shapes and sizes: interpreted vs. compiled, weak vs. strong typing, low-level vs. high-level, terse vs. expressive… There are many buckets you can put a programming...
Separation of Concerns, Explained
Software development is a very young field, particularly when you compare it to, say, medicine or law. Despite this, there’s no shortage of wisdom pearls, which accumulated in the decades...
In Defense of the SOLID Principles
From posts that politely offer their criticisms to others that outright deem them “for dummies,” it seems that bashing the SOLID principles is all the rage nowadays. The fact that...
Starting A Clean Architecture Example in C#
It’s time for the second part of our series about clean architecture. As promised in the first post, we’re going to show you a sample application in C#, to demonstrate...
CQRS: Understanding From First Principles
There seems to be no end to the choices you have for architecture when building an application. You don’t want to fall victim to cargo cult programming, so you need to...
An Introduction to Clean Architecture
It seems to me that the topic of software architecture has attracted a lot of interest in the last few years. And among many different flavors and styles of software...
Without Seeing Your Application’s Dependency Graph, You’re Flying Blind
Software architecture tends to be a pretty hard game. Writing scripts and little toy apps is easy enough. You build something and then you run it, confirming it does what...
Visualizing Your (Real) Software Architecture
Diagrams of software architecture have a certain aesthetic appeal to them. They usually consist of grayscale or muted pastel colors and nice, soft shapes with rounded edges. The architects that make...