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Every architecture, no matter what it is, partitions possible changes into three categories: local, nonlocal, and architectural.
- A local change can be accomplished by modifying a single element—for example, adding a new business rule to a pricing logic module.
- A nonlocal change requires multiple element modifications but leaves the underlying
Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs. It’s about deliberately choosing to be different. —Michael Porter
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- If your system requires high performance, then you need to pay attention to managing the time-based behavior of elements, their use of shared resources, and the frequency and volume of their interelement communication.
- If modifiability is important, then you need to pay attention to assigning responsibilities to elements and limiting the
Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
From Substack notes
Architecture represents a common abstraction of a system that most, if not all, of the system’s stakeholders can use as a basis for creating mutual understanding, negotiating, forming consensus, and communicating with each other. The architecture—or at least parts of it—are sufficiently abstract that most nontechnical people can understand it to... See more
Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
helps with communiation among stakeholders
