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Chris NorthwoodThe Full Stack Developerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4152-3_4

4. Designing Systems

Chris Northwood1 
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Manchester, UK
 

It’s rare for a web application nowadays to be built in isolation. As a full stack developer, you’re likely to have to work on entire systems, not just a single component within a system, and doing this effectively means being able to think at a different level of abstraction when problem solving.

In a modern organization, the system will be constantly growing and changing, although individual components may remain stable. Your job is to design those components in a way that maximizes agility—that is, when something changes in the future, it shouldn’t be painful to transition. These components ...

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