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Comment by Swizec

2 days ago

> We’re still missing a good way to express and measure architectural quality

Architectural complexity[1]! There’s several really good papers on this.

Unfortunately it never caught on and we don’t have great automated tools to spit out a number. Also the majority of people just don’t care enough. Research in this field kinda died out when we invented microservices and started treating those as a silver bullet to The Architecture Problem (it’s not [2])

[1] https://swizec.com/blog/why-taming-architectural-complexity-...

[2] https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ

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iot_devs  2 days ago

> Also the majority of people just don’t care enough.

Yet! It is the next frontier and we will need it for having agent as described in the post to really work

  • Swizec  2 days ago

    > Yet! It is the next frontier

    While researching my book I read papers from the 80’s saying this. If you get a good enough spec and define the contracts and architecture, you then just hand off implementation to juniors/offshore/etc

    So far has not worked. Maybe this time!

    • iot_devs  12 hours ago

      Why I believe to be different this time is that the engineer themselves feel this need AND this is a real need making software delivery actually faster.

      We will see!