The Laws Of Architectural Work is a short article with two important insights about architectural decisions:

- They always come with trade-offs.
- Context matters.

This reminded me of a university professor from back in a day. He used to say: “There is no good solution, there is only an optimal solution for our case”. This phrase pretty much summarizes the whole premise of this article.

In any case, I think it’s an important reminder, taking into account that we can “outsource” more and more coding work, so what we left with is basically architectural work, being it software, infrastructure, networks, or something else.

P.S. This article was written in 2020, so take it into account, when you encounter words “recent” there. I’m digging through my archive of saved articles.

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