Architecture
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Why Clean Architecture is a Maintainability Nightmare
Robert C. Martin's 'Clean Architecture' promises to decouple your business logic from external frameworks and databases. In practice, it leads to a sprawling wasteland of boilerplate, interface layers that pass data straight through, and excessive mapping functions. Here's why YAGNI should trump architecture dogmatism.
Microservices: The Great Architecture Grift of the 2010s
The industry fell head-over-heels for microservices, believing they would solve all development bottlenecks. Instead, we traded in-process function calls for unreliable network requests, simple joins for distributed transactions, and single deployments for orchestration nightmares. The monolith was right all along.
Why You Probably Don't Need a Backend
Before you spin up another Express app, deploy a PostgreSQL database, and configure a Redis cache, ask yourself: does this actually need a backend? For most projects, a static site coupled with a Git-based cron job is faster, cheaper, and infinitely more reliable. Here is how to build backendless apps.