Project architecture is not product architecture

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:22:18 +0000

I spent a good chunk of last week designing the architecture for a new service. On paper it was clean — well separated concerns, sensible boundaries, tests covering the happy paths. I felt good about it.

Then someone asked what this service was going to become in two years time, and I realised I had no idea. Not because the design was bad, but because I had never really thought about it beyond the project itself. I had optimised for getting something built, not for where it was going.

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Project architecture is not product architecture