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Thanks! I had my fair share (or maybe more than my fair share) of tangled legacy systems. They were definitely one of the motivations for the project. I found that many of them are so hard to change because the business logic and communication concerns became tightly coupled over time. I'm trying to make Itara as easy to adopt as possible, so hopefully it can help untangle systems like that gradually rather than requiring a big rewrite.

Show HN: Itara – Distributed system topology as an explicit, executable layer

https://github.com/itara-project/itara

Hi HN, I'm Gábor, a software engineer from Budapest.I spent almost a decade designing, building and maintaining distributed systems, and I came to truly understand why a lot of people define software architecture as "the stuff that's hard to change later". Changing service boundaries, communication protocol or serializers is time consuming and risky. The past few months, I've been building...

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This is pretty cool! Do you have a roadmap or planned features list? I'm curious how you plan on maturing the project.