Because architecture astronauts[0] are every employers' worst nightmare As jdwyah[1] said[2], there is a HUGE difference between "here is what academia thinks

Because architecture astronauts[0] are every employers' worst nightmare As jdwyah[1] said[2], there is a HUGE difference between "here is what academia thinks architecture should be..." and "in the Real World™, here are a few ways we can architect this..." I had the ... umm ... 'privilege' to guest in a friend's class several years ago on software architecture from a "pure engineering" perspective (whatever that was supposed to mean). He was pursuing an MS in CS (and, ftr, has done quite well for himself in the Real World™ (mostly by ignoring academia)), and had to take this "pure" architecture class during his time at the university he was attending. His "professor" (a recently-minted PhD who had not even spent so long as a summer internship out of the ivory towers of academia) was pontificating on how software should be written the day I was visiting. She asked me, being the Guest of the Day™, how what she said stacked-up against an honest-to-God, publicly-traded software company. Pretty sure she expected me to say something like, "we aim for those goals, but sometimes miss". Instead, I answered the class honestly: "none of what she said matters if you cannot deliver a security fix, or patch, or new version to your customers in the next few days - they do not care about you, and will leave for someone who will do what they want". ------- [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/05/01/architecture-astronauts-take-over/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/05/01/architecture-astro... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jdwyah https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jdwyah [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38459238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38459238