On: Just Enough Software Architecture (2010)

[serial_dev]

It's not always a balancing act, it implies that everything has a good side and you just need to know what to focus on.

It's not true, there are architectures that are a waste of time today, and a waste of time in 5 years, too.

[SgtBastard → serial_dev]

If that architecture has no value in any circumstances at the beginning of a project and no value once the code base has matured, it’s an anti pattern.

[metaltyphoon → SgtBastard]

Most devs / architects which initially designed the system then to not stick around and find out if what they did actually worked.