Architecture from a Developer's Perspective

wrote to me. He was right; I hadn’t thought carefully about that small addition. The truth is that as a developer you practice architecture daily, but only rarely do you have time to re ect on your corresponding decisions, actions, and their consequences. Software architecture affects the quality of what you build and how you build it. The Importance of Software Architecture ... The most obvious way that architecture affects quality is maintainability. Code that lacks clear boundaries and interfaces is dif cult to analyze. It’s also brittle and, therefore, difcult to change. A small addition