Software Architecture Design Thinking

Balancing between flexibility and simplicity is the most important part for design architecture. Technical managers always want most flexible software. Everything should be configurable. Configurable and implicit rules are twin. Software would be very difficult to maintain if there were lots of implicit rules.

 

Architecture is obvious for the architect since architects are often experienced and the architect is the author of the architecture. Other people will not think the architecture is simple as 1 plus 1 when the architect thinks it is. Other people will think the architecture is very difficult to be understood when the architect thinks it is a little complex. The software would be nightmare for people to maintain if the architecture thinks it is difficult to understand.

 

Put most things on the table instead of under the table.

Configuration is part of the code. Configuration rules are part of the code. XML is code.