An application architecture is more like a carefully designed garden than a series of city streets. Unless you tend to its care and feeding, it will soon become unruly, overgrown with the wasteful vestiges of dead code. Ignore it long enough and you'll find that your only recourse is to engage in massive -- and very costly -- changes to correct the neglect.
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Architectural Care and Feeding
By Luke Hohmann
Posted February 16, 1999 in Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies, Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence, Business & Enterprise Architecture Cutter Business Technology Journal
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