Architecture

Software Design (4): Information Hiding and Leakage

The number one technique behind deep modules: every module keeps its design decisions to itself. Turn it around, and once the same decision is scattered across several modules, changing it once means changing a whole circle of code. That is information leakage.

~10 min · Design / Architecture

Software Design (1): The Problem and the Mindset

A comparison of tactical programming and strategic programming

~12 min · Design / Architecture

Software Design (2): Complexity

~21 min · Design / Architecture

Software Design (3): Module Design

Strategic programming requires being willing to invest in good design; here is one direction for that investment: how to slice modules, how to tighten interfaces, and the standard for judging whether a module is deep.

~28 min · Design / Architecture