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97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Richard Monson-Haefel
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The ultimate architect's playbook - 97 bite-sized wisdom bombs from industry legends like Neal Ford and Michael Nygard. While tech evolves, these principles endure, shaping modern development practices from Agile to Domain-Driven Design. What architectural blind spot is costing your team right now?

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The Architect's Balancing Act: Between Business and Technology

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Software architecture is a delicate dance between business needs and technical possibilities. Unlike the rigid world of building architecture, software demands flexibility and adaptability while maintaining structural integrity. The most successful architects stand with one foot firmly in each world-understanding business priorities while mastering technical implementation. This dual perspective allows them to create solutions that not only function technically but deliver genuine business value. What makes this challenge particularly difficult is that we naturally gravitate toward complexity. There's something intellectually stimulating about crafting intricate solutions, and let's be honest-they make us look clever. But complexity breeds more complexity. Consider air traffic control systems that have become so convoluted they're nearly impossible to update. The essential complexity (coordinating thousands of aircraft) gets buried under layers of accidental complexity (the solutions we build to address the core problem). The true art of software architecture isn't showcasing technical prowess-it's solving essential complexity without introducing unnecessary complications. When faced with a problem like inventory tracking, resist the urge to implement sophisticated event-sourcing systems when a straightforward database would suffice. Remember that simplicity before generality is a virtue, not a compromise. Frameworks derived from working code almost always outperform theoretical ones in real-world applications.

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The Human Element: Communication Trumps Technology

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Designing for Failure: The Inevitability of Breakdowns

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Making Architecture Measurable: Quantifying the Unquantifiable

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Context is Everything: No Universal Solutions

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The Foundation: Data Models and Business Drivers

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Evolution and Ethics: Architecture Over Time

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