A Contrarian View of Software Architecture

Explore a contrarian perspective on software architecture in this conference talk from NDC Oslo 2023. Delve into the challenges of maintaining large, long-running enterprise systems and question industry-standard approaches. Examine how prescriptive, layered architectural styles like Clean or Onion Architecture can potentially hinder system maintainability. Investigate the drawbacks of using "repository" abstractions to hide persistence technology and organizing code around business entities or data storage. Discover alternative approaches, including vertical slice architecture, for improving code organization and readability. Consider whether consistency should be a primary goal in code architecture. Learn from real-world experiences across multiple companies and gain insights into creating more understandable, extensible, and modernizable software systems.

Introduction
Who is Jeremy
Jasper FX Software
Large Systems
Everything Works Up Front
Clean Architecture
Layered Architecture
Problems with Layered Architecture
Reference Architecture
Gen X
Obstruction
Review