I want to ask a question of the Web services community about\nsoftware architecture.<\/p>\n\n
My question is; Do you believe it is possible to make an error\nwhen architecting a software system, that would make it practically\nimpossible for that system to be successful, no matter how much\nsupport there is for it in industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n I ask, because if there’s one thing I’ve learned during my studies\nof software architecture, it’s that you don’t get something for nothing;\nyou have to expend energy to reduce entropy, aka add constraints to induce\nuseful properties. In several discussions I’ve had over the past three or\nso years, I’ve heard more than a few folks (most of whom should know\nbetter, IMO) imply that less constraints are a good thing.<\/p>\n\n If there are a significant number of “No” responses, then I’ll know\nto spend more time on software architecture education. If there are a\nsignificant number of “Yes” responses, I’ll focus on the specifics of\nthe architecture of large scale systems (which is what I’ve been doing).<\/p>\n\n Thanks. I apologize that I don’t have comments set up to handle\nthis. But hopefully doing it this way, responses will end up in more\naggregators, and this important issue will get more exposure.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I want to ask a question of the Web services community about software architecture. My question is; Do you believe it is possible to make an error when architecting a software system, that would make it practically impossible for that system to be successful, no matter how much support there is for it in industry? […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}