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Dec 8, 2024 at 10:55 comment added Steve @JoeKing, alas not. It's much more difficult to think of useful advice than to air my own complaints! I think one point I'd make is that the architecture of an application - the highest-scale patterns and arrangements - are quite variable and sensitive to context in lots of different ways. What is typically missing from published works is any information about the author's context, or (which would be even better...) an attempt to enumerate how architecture varies according to different contexts.
Dec 7, 2024 at 18:24 comment added Joe King Sorry to go a bit off-topic, but are there any software engineering architecture books that you would recommend (to a relative newbie)? I have enjoyed many of your posts on here and I have learned a lot from them, and you've obviously got a tonne of experience, but I like reading books, so, hence my question. (+1) BTW :)
Dec 7, 2024 at 14:17 comment added Steve @DocBrown, "It pretty much condemns every software engineering book of the last 20 years." - was my intention that transparent? 😂 Nothing has improved in 20 years in this realm, and it's time to condemn a little more and sympathise a little less, and demand higher standards from authors who have had at least 20 years to up their game.
Dec 7, 2024 at 13:40 comment added Doc Brown I think you are perfectly right with the second half of this answer, still I think the criticism in the first half goes over the top. It pretty much condemns every software engineering book of the last 20 years. Granted, "Clean Architecture" is a book which - given the real complexity of the topic, can only be superficial with most of its content - but that's more an issue of the topic not the author's fault,
Dec 7, 2024 at 11:33 history answered Steve CC BY-SA 4.0