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Minimum Viable Architecture • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022
Explore the concept of "minimum viable architecture" and learn how to balance simplicity, scalability, and maintainability in software development, avoiding local maxima and embracing continuous improvement and sustainability.
- The biggest waste in software development is optimizing for local maxima, not global optimization.
- Organizing code delivery around features, not services, leads to monoliths.
- A “minimum viable architecture” considers trade-offs between simplicity, scalability, and maintainability.
- Feature toggling and continuous delivery help to iterate and refine new features.
- When refactoring, prioritize the biggest bang for the buck.
- Microservices are independent and modular, with each service responsible for a specific task.
- Single responsibility principle is key in microservices design.
- Introduce repeatable processes for continuous improvement and sustainability.
- Prioritize customer problems over architectural purity.
- Constantly experiment and adapt, as the problem domain and architecture evolve.
- Scaleless architectures are not required; monoliths can scale horizontally.
- Migration to microservices can be a gradual process.
- Modular systems can be more efficient and flexible than monolithic ones.