Importance of Software Architecture
What Is Software Architecture?
The architecture of the software is a plan that describes a set of aspects and decisions that are important to software.
Importance of Software Architecture
Software architecture, no matter if you are building frontend, backend, native app, desktop application, or any other system, it matters. Without it, it’s super hard to continuously innovate on top of it.
Here are few problems to highlight the importance of software architecture
- If there is no proper separation of concern, a simple change may take a large effort.
- If third-party services are not abstracted away, it would be hard to replace them.
- If the relation between various components is not done right, it would be hard to write automated tests for them.
- If the code is not broken down into proper pieces and written in a similar language to the domain it solves, it would be hard for new developers to understand the codebase.
Essentially, if you want to ship anything more than a sample application, you need to pick an architecture consciously for your application and ensure you see it through. You have to be a bit careful which architecture is right for your application but do pick one and stand to it.
One thing that I really like in any software architecture is it should help speak the domain language effectively (over something that focuses on functional programming). This way business and engineering can speak the same language — essentially a software architecture, the heart of which, is the good old object-oriented design. Inherently, OOPS when done right, enforces the SOLID design principle.
At JTC, we wrote a Node JS boilerplate in TS that implements a simple architecture that helps keep sanity yet keeps the startup agility.
The HTTP server injects the dependencies into the application (abstracted away to a large extent from Express). The app dependencies are passed into a controller.
The controller essentially uses injected repositories to persist the data. The repository abstracts out how and where the data is stored (file storage, Mongoose, SQL, InMemory DB, etc) and converts the model into a domain model before handing it over.
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Originally published at: https://articles.jalantechnologies.com/importance-of-software-architecture/
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