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Re:Writing maintainable code is a communication skill by hakunin on Friday December 03, 2021 @11:26PM (#29438689)
The problem is that predicting how a business might evolve is pretty much impossible. It might make more sense to architect for ease of change in general rather than ease of change into a specific direction. To do that (aside from the advice in the article), I like to imagine a scale where static/hardcoded/build-time architecture is on the left end, and dynamic runtime-manageable architecture on the right. To avoid over-engineering, the trick is to always lean as much as possible towards the left side of the scale. Only introduce runtime complexity when absolutely needed.

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