A popular choice in the real world is known as 'the big ball of mud', e.g. as described at http://www.laputan.org/mud/ .
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Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
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Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#42Based on my experience, write down the names of some services and languages on slips of paper then draw a few from a hat.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#43There was an article recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30936189) that was basically about how far you can get with a simple architecture.
One thing I don't remember explicitly called out, is that most all architectures are grown. There are scarily few situations where starting with the complicated idea is a good idea.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#44A certain amount of information can be gleaned from job descriptions from a company’s careers page.
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Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#45https://eng.uber.com/
has great articles covering many topics
Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#46There was an article recently ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30936189 ) that was basically about how far you can get with a simple architecture. One thing I don't remember explicitly called out, is that most all architectures are grown. There are scarily few situations where starting with the complicated idea is a good idea.
Gall's Law :
> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#47High Scalability has some good articles around this. http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/
Keep in mind that the author of that blog doesn't actually talk to anyone at the company they are writing about, they just collect articles around the internet and public statements and piece it together from that.
For example one of the most popular article on that site (which is part of their book now) is the article on Netflix. A lot of that was cribbed directly from my talks, but they never reached out to me to even check it over, and as such missed a lot of nuance and detail, things I didn't cover in my talks.
Same thing for the article about reddit -- also cribbed a lot from my talks.
It's a fine overview, but light on specifics. I've reached out a few times and some things have been corrected after the fact, but I don't know if the other articles have been reviewed.
So my point is, be warned that the articles on that site are not primary sources but are derived from them.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#48https://eng.uber.com/ has great articles covering many topics
Wow, thanks for this link. At a glance, there are tons of great and interesting articles to view. I am saddened by the fact that there isn't more content on self-driving vehicles.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#49A popular choice in the real world is known as 'the big ball of mud', e.g. as described at http://www.laputan.org/mud/ .
A lot of old projects (especially 20 years+) tend to be more or less this.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I see many examples of real companies' software architecture?
#50All of our Sourcegraph docs are public, including our architecture overviews and a myriad other docs linked from there.
https://docs.sourcegraph.com/dev/background-information/arch...