Ralf Westphal ⁽¹¹⁸⁾

As you might have guessed if you’ve followed my postings about the Sleepy Hollow Architecture and the Terminus Architecture, I’m on a quest. I want to find a better way to fundamentally structure software for higher evolvability. Not as an end to itself, but because…

In my experience most software architectures in projects I see are too technical. They don’t focus on the most important thing: results and behavior. Robert C. Martin coined they term „screaming architecture“: Your architectures should tell readers about the system, not about the frameworks you…

There is a basic structure of software systems I’m drifting towards more and more. To me it’s more fundamental than MVC or Layered Architecture or Clean Architecture. I call it the Sleepy Hollow Architecture because it’s about dissecting code into two parts: a body and…

I have been chasing a better definition for the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) for quite a while. „A reason to change“ is too fuzzy for me. And even Robert C. Martin’s latest explanation does not fit the bill, I think, even though I like it…

Im Bregenzerwald habe ich gesehen, was Führung ist. Und was Management ist. Die Erkenntnis, nein, eher die Bestätigung einer Erkenntnis, die ich schon hatte, lag, nein, lief vor mir auf der Straße. Mehrfach war ich während des Urlaubs nämlich Zeuge eines Almabtriebs: Die Kühe werden…