Good Architecture Is a Function of Time
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Engineers, we use a lot of words to talk about architecture, but at a fundamental level, I think architecture is about making good decisions easier, on a timeframe you can reason about.
→ Small startups can’t reason about a long timeframe, so architecture has limited ROI.
→ Banks have requirements around audit trails and – for trading systems – response times, that influence their architectural choices.
→ Open source projects are constrained in their choices by downstream users.
→ Large companies are usually constrained by long-term customers…
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