Not OP but couldn't you split up you project to smaller projects?
>> But when you get past a certain size actual architecture becomes very beneficial.
This article and only rejects the convoluted architecture approach with design patterns and suggests that you can come up with your own design without using these. It is not arguing that there is no need for architecture at all.
>Not OP but couldn't you split up you project to smaller projects?
My own personal stuff I can do whatever I like with, work stuff I don't have much say over. Could they be split up? Oh, yes. Does it need to be 1 million lines of code? No... I think it could probably be about 1/5th to maybe even 1/10th of that.
But still, even if it's split into microservices or just smaller modules, the aggregate lines of code required to solve the entire business problem is still a great deal larger than will fit into 10 well crafted files. Was just curious the nature of the work that naturally fits into that size.
>This article and only rejects the convoluted architecture approach with design patterns and suggests that you can come up with your own design without using these. It is not arguing that there is no need for architecture at all.
I think this article is great. I took this article to be advocating for taking a good hard look at the problem at hand and really nutting out a solution that fits it well. It doesn't reject design patters, per se, it rejects not properly thinking things through.
Way too many (but not all) enterprise codebases can be divided into small non-interacting pieces that share only a small bit of code. If so, diving them transforms the problem from a monster program that nobody can ever understand into a lot of tractable ones that a single person can read.
>> But when you get past a certain size actual architecture becomes very beneficial.
This article and only rejects the convoluted architecture approach with design patterns and suggests that you can come up with your own design without using these. It is not arguing that there is no need for architecture at all.