Pillar Three
Software Engineering Principles.
The fundamentals separating engineers from typists.
Architecture before stack. Domain-driven design. Testing strategy. Versioning. Refactoring under load. The boring fundamentals separating engineers from typists.
Why This Pillar
The fundamentals never go out of style.
Frameworks change every few years. Domain-driven design, a disciplined test suite, and a codebase surviving its own refactor do not. They are the difference between an engineer and someone who can type quickly.
This pillar covers the boring parts nobody puts on a conference slide, because those are exactly the parts deciding whether a system stays maintainable in year three.
Topics
What this pillar covers.
- Domain-driven design
- Testing strategy
- API versioning
- Refactoring under load
- Code review discipline
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