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You are conflating architecture with abstraction. Architecture is design, the map to a solution. Abstraction, however, is the distance that the architecture s
by IncRnd 5y ago
You are conflating architecture with abstraction. Architecture is design, the map to a solution. Abstraction, however, is the distance that the architecture sits from the system's reason for existence.
I've found more usefulness in being pithy than in being prolix.
- kmill 5y agoDistance might be rather a symptom of senseless abstraction. Abstraction is throwing away details. If you throw away the right details, solutions are simpler. If you throw away the wrong ones, you miss the point.
- IncRnd 5y agoAbstraction is throwing away details, yes, which results in a distance of the design from the goal of the product.