alt Hacker News> We’re still missing a good way to express and measure architectural quality
Architectural complexity[1]! There’s several really good papers on this.
Unfortunately it never caught on and we don’t have great automated tools to spit out a number. Also the majority of people just don’t care enough. Research in this field kinda died out when we invented microservices and started treating those as a silver bullet to The Architecture Problem (it’s not [2])
[1] https://swizec.com/blog/why-taming-architectural-complexity-...
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> we invented microservices and started treating those as a silver bullet
Is that actually a thing? All projects I have worked on for 30+ years were monoliths doing just fine thank you very much.
However colleagues are fighting daily battles with an ancient microservices monster. I am very happy that isn't me.
Didn't even need to click the YouTube link, I knew it would be Krazaam.
> Also the majority of people just don’t care enough.
Yet! It is the next frontier and we will need it for having agent as described in the post to really work