Software designs that grow: ten years of success
Having led the development of a large-scale, mission-critical system in a complex domain. I can't talk about the specifics of that system, but I can direct you to this architectural philosophy and design pattern blog I wrote many months before I started Elevence , and even before I wrote my playbook. It has become one of my most liked blogs: Software designs that grow with monads, comonads, and type compatibility . And one that has given me some fame. The story was that after having built software for many years, I started to notice that certain designs inevitably collapsed under their own weight, while others seemed to grow stronger with change. It felt less like a matter of style and more like a matter of mathematics. There are underlying laws about how information and change behave in a system. I wrote up the thoughts in that blog. Purposely cryptic back then, as it makes no sense to give away what is still new. Breaking down some core concepts of the blog: Type...