Reflections on Clean Architecture

hey@crazyoptimist.net (crazyoptimist) — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:51:27 -0500

Looking back at Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob. Funny how these principles are starting to feel like brand-new concepts again. :)

The goal of software architecture is to minimize the human resources required to build and maintain the required system.
The only way to go fast, is to go well.
Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure. (Conway’s law)

SRP: Each software module has one, and only one, reason to change. (This is NOT “A function should do one, and only one, thing, and do it well.”) A module should be responsible to one, and only one, actor. (actor == user or stakeholder)

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