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The book’s use of the term “architecture” is pretty different from modern usage. It refers to the shape that the new computer/OS will present to application dev
by closeparen 7y ago
The book’s use of the term “architecture” is pretty different from modern usage. It refers to the shape that the new computer/OS will present to application developers. The architect is something like a product manager; a voice for what the customer wants.
What my team calls “architecture” - the decomposition into services and classes, database schemas, interfaces between major components - I think Brooks would call “implementation design.”
- eitland 7y agoPartially agree: It seems to me that he would think interfaces between major subsystems would be architect level while any database table that only gets used within a single sub system is implementation level. Trying to be careful as I realize HN is the kind of forum where he or a close friend of him might show up to correct me :-)