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Re:Software Architecture Guide by vfc1 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:41AM (#20787370)
Exactly, many times these famous authors advocate for practices that make sense for building compilers and frameworks or libraries, but that make little sense for building applications.

Building applications is very different, because an application is the very end of the software tree dependency. Some practices make sense for both types of software, but many others don't and some of these authors don't seem to be able to make the difference.

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Re:Software Architecture Guide by scarface74 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:48AM (#20787401)
And sometimes it makes sense to take shortcuts that don’t make sense from a long term maintenance standpoint just to survive long enough to get product market fit. Get funding and survive.

Twitter is a perfect example of this. Everyone agrees that Twitter made some bad architectural decisions that caused the frequent appearance of the “fail whale”. But eventually, they got enough funding via combination of the VC funding and later the public market to rearchitect their system.

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