Patterns on Hatem Zidi

“Errorless Architecture” Is a Myth

me@hatemzidi.com (Hatem ZIDI) — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

errorless (adj)

Free from error, accurate, correct.
Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish.

I stumbled lately onto a strange feeling: many of the architectures I review are overcomplicated, fragmented, full of flows jumping here and there.
And what makes it worse? The costs of development, the deployment, the running, the operations, just to keep the system alive, are astronomical.

Layerd Confusion

me@hatemzidi.com (Hatem ZIDI) — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Many call it architecture; others call it wizardry.
I call it “layered confusion” … What do you call it ?

the truth about best practices

me@hatemzidi.com (Hatem ZIDI) — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:23:11 +0000

the best practice is to “don’t adapt those so-called best practices blindly!”