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Don't get locked up into avoiding lock-in
If you manage to avoid the trap of building custom software, the next boss to beat is avoiding the trap of customizing off-the-shelf software. The question to ask over and over again: how can you eliminate ""requirements"" in order to use software ever-more idiomatically? https://t.co/plvrDMRMG5
Know your technical debt, the understanding and management of which is key for a sustainable architecture. Lack of awareness of technical debt will eventually result in a software product that cannot respond to new feature demands in a cost-effective manner.
Murat Erder • Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))
Planning too far ahead will lead to conflicts in goals and execution. Going too far too fast can lead to purposely overlooking debt or forgetting to record it. When under heavy pressure, the team might fail to care for debt sooner than later.