Is it worth always "being right"? What does it mean to "be right" in software development? How important is it for a leader to "be right"? When does it all becomes arrogance? Have you ever had to deal with someone who always has to be right?
Explore the points of view of developers, leaders, and architects.
Continuing my previous article, we will discuss scale, support and accidental complexity, types you can manage, reduce and even remove.
Complexity is the primary enemy of software design and architecture. The primary job of a software architect is to remove, reduce, or manage complexity in that order. But what if the problem space itself is complex? How do you do that? What does it even mean? What is complexity, anyway?
There are actually multiple types of software complexity, and each type requires a different approach.
Developers use the word "abstraction" regularly, yet there is limited understanding of what it means. In a broader sense, abstraction has been overshadowed by its use in some languages to denote a method or class that will be overwritten later, as well as the phrase "use abstraction." is understood to mean "write an abstract class.".
Abstraction is one of the most important techniques for achieving decoupling and stabilizing your public interfaces at any level.
There are many ways to create a Modulith, and I will introduce you to one of them. The important parts that we will discuss are: Application layer, Business modules, Facades / Repositories, Event bus/broker, CQ Router and Utilities.
Understanding the roles of these parts is essential to building a code base that won't end up as a "big ball of mud".