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The Principles of Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob Martin

NorfolkDevelopers · 591.2K views · 2015-12-15 · 1:13:24

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Overview

Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) presents the principles of Clean Architecture, covering dependency direction, boundaries, and why frameworks and databases should be details rather than the center of an application.

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Listed among favorite tech talks and cited in debates over whether the database should drive application architecture.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2021

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0xmohit · 2016-10 · Recommendation

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters [0] The Principles of Clean Architecture [1] The State of the Art in Microservices by Adrian Cockcroft [2] "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong [3] [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]

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Rd6n6 · 2021-07 · Reference

Mvc isn’t an architecture at all. It’s just meant to be a tiny pattern for ui widgets from the 70s that people started to use as an architecture. The actual goal is to just keep a tiny piece of business logic from having a dependency on a specific input or on the view. It applied to a single button or a single input field back then. Architecture is more about deciding what direction your dependencies go and where your hard boundaries go [VIDEO] (approx 27 mins in)

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MaxBarraclough · 2019-12 · Reference

For some perhaps-off-topic contrarianism, what do you make of Uncle Bob railing against database-oriented architectures? [0] (He takes a good few minutes to get his point across.) [0] [VIDEO]

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