October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
321 pages
7h 52m
English
book
Balancing Coupling in Software Design: Universal Design Principles for Architecting Modular Software Systems
by Vlad Khononov
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Foreword
Design happens in the cracks.
At first as a programmer you don’t even know what the things are. You learn about functions. You learn about types. You learn about classes and modules and packages and services. You still haven’t learned to design. You can make all the things, but you can’t design. Because design happens in the cracks.
Design prepares change. The things, those are the change. Design makes places for the new things, the functions and types and classes and modules and packages and services.
What Vlad has done is catalog the cracks, the seams, the dark squishy in between of software. If you want to not just make changes, but make changes easy, this is the vocabulary you’ll need. The glossary. The dictionary of cracks.
Vlad ...